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From: thomas@mipsbx.lkg.dec.com (Matt Thomas)
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Subject: Re: How do I get lat info from C?
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Date: 9 Mar 91 18:34:55 GMT
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In article <1226@dekalb.UUCP> john@dekalb.UUCP (John Cothran) writes:
>   The lat.h include file has several structures defined with lots of goodies.
>In particular:
>
>[...]
>
>My question is what functions can I call to get this info?  I want to write a
>program that will list all users and the server/port they are coming in on.
>I assume it can be done since "w" now shows the server name.

Actually, login does a LIOCTTYI ioctl (on the LAT tty fd) and stores the
resultant information in the wtmp/utmp files from which w and last display
the server name.  lcp(8) -p uses LIOCGSRVPRT ioctl on (AF_LAT, SOCK_DGRAM,
LATPROTO_CTL) socket with lsp_dev set to the LAT tty to be queried.

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