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Re: weird utmp/perl problem



On 21 Apr 1998 08:55:51 -0700, karlheg@inetarena.com (Karl M. Hegbloom) said:
> 
>> It's just a silly bug.  It calls that code from some scripts which
>> have fd0 dup'd elsewhere, so isatty(0) is false and getlogin() fails.
> 
> Will someone please fix it?  It's really annoying.  Is it in the bug
> sys?

The bug is in libc6.  getlogin() is supposed to work even if isatty(0)
is false.  It is bug #17528.

-- 
Roderick Schertler
roderick@argon.org


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