Joel Klecker wrote:
>At 13:30 -0700 1999-02-28, John Lapeyre wrote:
>> How important is this? Should we search the source of
>>our packages ? What kind of strings should I look for ? 'UTMP' ?
>
>It is quite important, if the program is to work correctly (for
>example `who' which reads utmp directly shows no output, while `w'
>which uses the appropriate libc functions shows users logged in).
>
>You want to look for the functions, utmpname, setutent, getutent,
>pututline, etc. (i.e. the list in the message you replied to).
I don't understand that; surely programs ought to be using those functions,
so one that does is OK. Shouldn't we be looking for /etc/{uw}tmp?