Re: talk/talkd on solaris 2.8

[Michael Weiser]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Alain Magloire wrote:

> > > The current cvs tree:
> > >   http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/inetutils/
> > Today I got the current cvs tree and saw that Sergey already did some of
> > the changes I needed but in a slightly different way. Since my patch now
> > doesn't apply anymore but my local copy works alright, I'll just leave
> > it as it is for now. On the next update I'll see if Sergey's changes
> Yes, except that your patches corrected some stuff, that was not part of
> Sergey's work.
I now rechecked against current cvs and it seems that Sergey's changes
corrected almost anything my patch did, too. He just does it diffent.

For example: I searched the tty's in utmp(x) and especially remembered
"console" as a last resort to fall back to if no other tty is found for
that user since on Solaris outputs to /dev/console don't appear anywhere
unless you have an xconsole open or shut down X completely and work on
the text console emulation (which certainly almost noone does). Sergey
therefore just chose to search the 'newest' tty, which means the one with
the lowest idle time which by the way does what I need for Solaris and is
a much better solution anyway.

Therefore I just needed to adjust my utmpx-patch and it worked OOB. I just
have to recheck tomorrow if it works okay under X since I compiled it
remotely from my home Linux box and just checked it from there on text
console. I can give you ultimate feedback on that then, but I'm very
confident that it does work fine like it is now.

> > already do the job or something more is still needed and then I'll do it
> > right from the beginning and send you a patch against current cvs and a
> > changelog entry.
> That would be great, thanks for taking the time.
So here it is, the patch against latest cvs for using utmpx if available
which makes talkd work on my Solaris 2.8 box.

Perhaps one should add some check if utmpx is really used on that system
and the user wants to use it too since I know that at least IRIX 6.5 has
utmpx-support but also keeps a utmp in sync for compatibility with older
applications.

Apropos IRIX: Is there some need for experiences with IRIX 6.5? I have
such a box and the system's talkd is a bit wacky but not so much that I'd
replace it just for fun. But if you'd like some report on compiling and
running inetutils on such boxes I'd volunteer...

That's it so far - keep up the great work!
-- 
bye, Micha

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