Can't find getutmp and getutmpx in glibc 2.1.x

Andreas Jaeger aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de
Thu Apr 1 00:00:00 GMT 1999


>>>>> Pablo Frank writes:

 >     I'm trying to link Eterm 0.8.8 and it's looking for functions called
 > getutmp and getutmpx.
 >     I've been told that the functions getutmp and getutmpx are somewhere
 > in the glibc libraries but doing a nm on libc.a and libutil.a didn't
 > reveal anything.  In fact, doing an nm * | grep 'getutmp' came up flat
 > in my /usr and /usr/lib directories.
 >     I'm running Linux 2.2.3 with egcs 1.1.1, glibc 2.1.1(pre-release 1),
 > and binutils 2.9.1.0.19a (I think).

getutmp and getutmpx don't come with glibc 2.1.1 and as far as I can
check never came with glibc2.anything.  The information you got is
wrong.  

The interfaces are fully specified in <utmp.h> and <utmpx.h>.

Andreas
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