Re: "who am i" from a ptty

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From: Dave Bloom
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1985 14:30

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In article <191@pluto.UUCP>, warren@pluto.UUCP (Warren Burstein) writes:
> I just discovered that "who am i" prints nothing if stdin is a ptty.
> It gets the name from ttyname, then searches /etc/utmp for a line
> matching the ptty.  Since no one is logged in on a ptty it fails.
> 
> This was observed under Pyramid OS-X which pretends to be both BSD and
> SysV.

This is a problem with OSx 2.3.... Pyramid maintained such a separation
between 4.2 and SysV that the SysV end knows nothing about people logged in
under Ethernet, a problem since corrected under OSx 2.5.
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From: dave@andromeda.UUCP (Dave Bloom)
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Subject: Re: "who am i" from a ptty
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Date: Mon, 25-Nov-85 09:30:22 EST
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Posted: Mon Nov 25 09:30:22 1985
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