[14921] in Athena Bugs
sun4 8.0J: /usr/athena/bin/finger
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nathanw@MIT.EDU)
Wed Jan 22 16:11:57 1997
From: nathanw@MIT.EDU
To: bugs@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 16:11:50 EST
System name: cartoon
Type and version: SPARC/Classic 8.0J (3 update(s) to same version)
Display type: cgthree
What were you trying to do?
Parse the output of /usr/athena/bin/finger
What's wrong:
Under Solaris, /usr/athena/bin/finger gratuitously misformats
its output. There is no space after the username, so a fullname
gecos field longer than 20 characters (and the limit is 32) will
make the user name run into the TTY name. Also, while all platforms
will print a "*" before the TTY if the tty is not writeable, Solaris
will not print a space if it is writeable, so later fields are
misaligned.
Example:
114 sundial:nathanw>/usr/athena/bin/finger
Local:
Login Name TTY Idle When Office
root System PRIVILEGED Acpts/0 Wed 13:37
nathanw Nathan Williams *pts/1 Wed 14:40
What should have happened:
Things should line up nicely, and have more space.
Or at least be consistent across platforms.
Also, finger.c shouldn't be littered with gratuitous #ifdef's...
Please describe any relevant documentation references:
finger.c
A fix:
*** finger.c.orig Wed Jan 22 15:47:20 1997
--- finger.c Wed Jan 22 15:49:48 1997
***************
*** 766,780 ****
else
printf(" ??? ");
}
- #ifndef SOLARIS
(void) putchar(' ');
- #endif
if (pers->loggedin && !pers->writable)
(void) putchar('*');
- #ifndef SOLARIS
else
(void) putchar(' ');
- #endif
if (*pers->tty) {
if (!strncmp(pers->tty, "tty", 3)) {
if (pers->tty[3] == 'd' && pers->loggedin)
--- 766,776 ----
