tag 229785 + help
thanks
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:12:17PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote:
> Package: xutils
> Version: 4.2.1-12.1
> Severity: normal
> Followup-For: Bug #229785
>
> Hi!
>
> I've been investigating a little bit more about this bug and I've found
> some extra information.
>
> In sessreg.c, lines 371 - 385:
> -*-*-*-*-*-
> if (line) {
> int i;
> /*
> * this is a bit crufty, but
> * follows the apparent conventions in
> * the ttys file. ut_id is only 4 bytes
> * long, and the last 4 bytes of the line
> * name are written into it, left justified.
> */
> i = strlen (line);
> if (i >= sizeof (u->ut_id))
> i -= sizeof (u->ut_id);
> else
> i = 0;
> (void) strncpy (u->ut_id, line + i, sizeof (u->ut_id));
> -*-*-*-*-*-
>
> The thing is that if you have different host names, with the same
> display numbers, such as "test:0" and "fist:0", this is keeping only
> the last 4 characters of the name, and will consider that these two
> hosts are in fact only one host.
>
> I think that doing a hash, or something like that would be better.
>
> Hope it helps solve this bug.
Yes; thank you very much for tracking this down. Fast work!
I do not think I will have time to address this bug myself in the short
term, so I am tagging it "help".
--
G. Branden Robinson | You could wire up a dead rat to a
Debian GNU/Linux | DIMM socket and the PC BIOS memory
branden@debian.org | test would pass it just fine.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Ethan Benson
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