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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