Re: Problems with getpwnam(), rxvt, utmp...
On 15 Oct, Guy Maor wrote:
> Federico Di Gregorio <fog@perosa.alpcom.it> writes:
>
>> Then I remembered that dpkg-buildpackage tell me
>> something about w/utmp being not set if runned from rxvt...
>> maybe is the same problem but only glibc2 reacts worse
>> than dpkg-buildpackage?
>
> That's simply a bug in dpkg-buildpackage's scripts which is unrelated.
> dpkg 1.4.1.2 has fixed it incidentally.
>
> The problem was that getlogin() was being called by every script to
> determine who is on the console. A few scripts dup stdin and exec
> something else (dpkg-parsechanelog is one). stdin is not a tty then.
> The solution was to put that getlogin code in a function and only call
> it when needed.
I understand. Unfortunately my problem remains >:(
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