Odd w/who behavior for the last 12 years

Ed Schouten ed at nuxi.nl
Wed Jun 6 09:37:02 UTC 2018


Hi Timur,

2018-05-28 5:26 GMT+02:00 Timur I. Bakeyev <timur at com.bat.ru>:
> So I propose to remove the said patch(or make it verify only "pts/"
> devices). any objections?

Sounds good! Changes like the ones made in r155875 were simply
workarounds to deal with processes silly enough not to write
DEAD_PROCESS entries. Instead of patching up w, wall, who, etc. we
should spend effort to fix these problems at the root instead.

Be sure to cc me on code reviews!

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Ed Schouten <ed at nuxi.nl>
Nuxi, 's-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands


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