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Re: Bug#15859: libc5 in stable is horribly broken (fwd)



On Dec 12, Turbo Fredriksson wrote
> On 12 Dec 1997, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
> 
> > Just use the libc functions setutent/getutent. They're available in
> > both libc5 and glibc2.
> 
> Sorry... I'm using perl, and these functions are not avalible.. *sigh*
[...]
> *sigh* What can a poor perl proggrammer do...? :)

man perlxstut
man h2xs

something along the lines of

     h2xs -n Sys::Utmp utmp

Looking at utmp.h, it doesn't seem that much work to make a proper perl
extension for utmp handling.
I might even try to do it myself. No promises though.

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