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Date:      Sun, 4 Nov 2007 16:14:31 -0500 (EST)
From:      "J.R. Oldroyd" <fbsd@opal.com>
To:        FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   bin/117830: who(1) no longer displays entries for folk logged in from xdm(1)
Message-ID:  <200711042114.lA4LEVGY004363@linwhf.opal.com>
Resent-Message-ID: <200711050310.lA53A1B2096990@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         117830
>Category:       bin
>Synopsis:       who(1) no longer displays entries for folk logged in from xdm(1)
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Mon Nov 05 03:10:01 UTC 2007
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     J.R. Oldroyd
>Release:        FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD linwhf.opal.com 7.0-BETA1 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA1 #0: Thu Nov 1 14:21:03 EDT 2007 xx:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/LINWHF i386
>Description:
When logging in from xdm(1), utmp entries with a ttyname of ":0", ":1", ...
are made by an invocation of sessreg(1) in /usr/local/lib/X11/xdm/Xstartup.
who(1) does not display these entries.  "who -q", however, does.
>How-To-Repeat:
Run xdm.  Log in.  Start a shell.  Run "who".
>Fix:
--- src/usr.bin/who/who.orig	2007-10-29 14:44:55.000000000 -0400
+++ src/usr.bin/who/who.c	2007-11-03 12:52:57.000000000 -0400
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@
 	while (fread(&ut, sizeof(ut), 1, fp) == 1) {
 		if (*ut.ut_name == '\0')
 			continue;
-		if (ttystat(ut.ut_line, UT_LINESIZE) != 0)
+		if (*ut.ut_line != ':' && ttystat(ut.ut_line, UT_LINESIZE) != 0)
 			continue;
 		row(&ut);
 	}
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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