Ghosts with who

[( Marc A. Lehmann )]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 04:30:08AM -0500, James Michael Fultz <jmf at gtcom.net> wrote:
> who's output.  That is, if I close an rxvt-unicode window, who still
> reports a user on the pty used by that rxvt-unicode instance.  However,
> w does not report such ghosts.

That is probably normal - there are different ways in which utmp is being
managed, depending on setup and permissions. I'll have a look, maybe a bug
crept it, but it's likely what rxvt & rxvt-unicode simply do.

> I've not seen this behaviour with xterm, rxvt, Eterm, nor Mrxvt; but all
> of those are using utempter while I have my rxvt-unicode binaries SGID

That is interesting - how did you configure rxvt to use utempter? The code
should be virtually identical, and I didn't know rxvt supports utempter
(it doesn't, actually).

Does the slackware package contain a seperated patch? Or does it refer to
some patch? I'd prefer utempter if it is available, but I don't have the
energy to write that part myself.

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