[4954] in testers
IRIX w and gnome pty's
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert A Basch)
Fri Jul 6 15:27:16 2001
Message-Id: <200107061927.PAA23009@anhedonia.mit.edu>
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2001 15:27:12 -0400
From: Robert A Basch <rbasch@MIT.EDU>
On IRIX, gnome-terminal writes utmp entries with the line field of the
form "pts/<n>". The w command by default displays only the first 3
characters of the field, but skips an initial "tty". So entries of
the form "ttyq<n>" are displayed as "q<n>", but "pts/<n>" is truncated
to the not-very-useful "pts". ("w -W" displays the entire value, as
does "who").
I probably won't bother to report this to SGI, unless someone feels
it is more than an annoyance.
Bob
