Bug#515144: coreutils: who reports different output from who /var/run/utmp
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 06:33:10PM -0500, Aleks Bromfield wrote: Thanks for looking into this! I forgot the original question. :-) The reason the output is different is that without arguments who will ignore any utmp entry for which the recorded process id doesn't exist, while it does not do that if you specify a file. (This makes sense if you imagine that the use for specifying a file is to look at archived files.) The point of that is to try to suppress odd entries in cases like yours; in the expected case there should be no difference. (Because dead processes would be marked as DEAD; that's another problem with your file--some process isn't updating the file on exit, so some of the duplicated lines assert that multiple PIDs are active on the same pty.) Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515144: coreutils: who reports different output from who /var/run/utmp
Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: important I recently noticed that who reports different output depending on whether or not the default file is specified. That is, who gives different output who /var/run/utmp even though strace confirms that they are both reading the same files. So far, specifying a filename always produces more output, not less. ~ Aleks -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (750, 'testing'), (80, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.47-2 Access control list shared library ii libc6 2.7-18 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libselinux1 2.0.65-5 SELinux shared libraries coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515144: coreutils: who reports different output from who /var/run/utmp
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:12:38PM -0500, Aleks Bromfield wrote: Package: coreutils Version: 6.10-6 Severity: important I recently noticed that who reports different output depending on whether or not the default file is specified. That is, who gives different output who /var/run/utmp I can't duplicate that. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#515144: coreutils: who reports different output from who /var/run/utmp
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 05:25:35PM -0500, Aleks Bromfield wrote: I've attached a utmp file which causes the problem for me. The file appears to be corrupt, as there are multiple entries for the same pty. I'll give it a closer look next week. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
