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Re: utmp in trixie



On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 at 09:47, Marco d'Itri <md@linux.it> wrote:
On Apr 02, Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> wrote:

>Does that breaks the usual unix commands like 'who' ? If yes this is
who(1) specifically, yes.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1079575 .
Maybe the coreutils maintainer is already working to backport this
simple patch in time for trixie, or else you could help him.

>dangerous. It is common to use them before deciding whether a host
>can be shut down.
You may use w(1) for the time being.
w uses the systemd method by default now which is why it reports users.

I thought there was upstream coreutils support for systemd in gnulib[1] which
is what who uses, so in theory it's a configure change.

I must admit I don't fully follow coreutils source so may have missed something.

 - Craig

1: https://github.com/coreutils/gnulib/blob/bb506f75625b47d7844af2b6dc4b8192d4dea676/lib/readutmp.c#L981


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