Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpxu-id

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From: Robert K Shull
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 19:56

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neal@ctd.COMsat.COM (Neal Becker) writes:

>Thanks for finger-1.36!  Installation was a lot easier than 1.35.  One
>minor problem:

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

The client end converts the two times it keeps to network order, but
the server doesn't convert them back.
The following patch to fingerd.c appears to work ok.
	Robert

===================================================================
RCS file: RCS/fingerd.c,v
retrieving revision 1.1
diff -r1.1 fingerd.c
670a671,672
>         packets[i]->login_time = ntohl (packets[i]->login_time);
>         packets[i]->idle_time = ntohl (packets[i]->idle_time);

-- 
Robert K. Shull, Sr. Applications Programmer, Engineering Computer Network
rob@mailhost.ecn.uoknor.edu
Disclaimer: OU can't afford opinions, so these must be mine.

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From: rob@essex.ecn.uoknor.edu (Robert K Shull)
Subject: Re: finger-1.36 minor bug on hpxu-id
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