Re: weird utmp/perl problem
Roderick Schertler <roderick@argon.org> writes:
> 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.
How can it? If isatty() is false, then ttyname(3) is null, so
getlogin() can't look up the entry in utmp.
The bug is fixed in Klee's version. He says that he will upload that
soon.
Guy
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