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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: ugly silly who(1) bug in AT&T V/386 3.2.2
Message-ID: <1991Apr01.162616.16503@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 1 Apr 91 16:26:16 GMT
Article-I.D.: chinet.1991Apr01.162616.16503
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In article <1991Mar30.042931.19546@informix.com> aland@infmx.informix.com (Colonel Panic) writes:
>Grrrrrrrrrr....

>I've been trying to figure this out for a YEAR, and I just stumbled
>on to the isolated case...

>Now, after stringing thru the ?tmp files, I've isolated it: 
>who am i returns nothing for all user names which are exactly 8 
>characters!   
>Does anybody know if this is a known bug?  Does it affect ISC, SCO,
>ESIX, etc?

I reported it to AT&T in 1986 on the 3B2 SysVr3.1 and have in my
files a "closed problem report" to confirm this.  And no, they
didn't fix it there either.
Consider this yet another example of the reason that AT&T's computer
operation is in it's current position.

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us