Re: FVWM: fvwm 2.0.42/Solaris 2.5

From: Jeff Magill <magill_at_sd.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 96 17:17:41 PDT

>I have a theory.
>Suppose the author of xlock was an idiot and used getlogin() to find the
>user's login name - fvwm will not have a controlling terminal or utmp entry
>and getlogin() will fail.

I just did a search on my xlock source code and I didn't find a call to
getlogin() (although there was an extern for it which may mean it was
used at one time). There were bunches of calls to getuid().


Jeff

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Received on Thu Jun 20 1996 - 19:47:40 BST