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Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpux

#915
From: Minh Tran-Le
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 15:19
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neal@ctd.COMsat.COM (Neal Becker) writes:

>On hpux 8.07 finger shows entries for terminal "co" (console, I guess)
>which all show idle time of 24 years!  Anyone know why?

There a bug a in lib/os.c when it does not find a "console" location
in the file TTYLOC and try to use a hostname.

Here is a diff of my changes (the line numbers may not match exactly
because I had other changes for aix in that file):

Minh Tran-Le.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------
*** os.c-	Thu Oct  1 11:56:57 1992
--- os.c	Tue Oct 13 10:42:00 1992
***************
*** 604,610 ****
        /* If console user, and there is no entry in the list for
  	 `console', then try the local host. */
  
!       if (!(hostname = xgethostname ()))
  	if (result = lookup_tty (hostname))
  	  return (result);
  #endif
--- 609,615 ----
        /* If console user, and there is no entry in the list for
  	 `console', then try the local host. */
  
!       if (hostname = xgethostname ())
  	if (result = lookup_tty (hostname))
  	  return (result);
  #endif
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Subject: Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpux
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Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 15:19:02 GMT
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