Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!auspex!guy
From: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Login shell?
Message-ID: <416@auspex.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 19:44:07 GMT
References: <3ed799bc.103e8@hi-csc.UUCP> <13851@mimsy.UUCP> <511@imec.UUCP> <1217@vsedev.VSE.COM> <10808@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <1229@vsedev.VSE.COM>
Reply-To: guy@auspex.UUCP (Guy Harris)
Organization: Auspex Systems, Santa Clara
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>You WILL find this call on ALL System V machines that conform to
>the SVID.  If your machine doesn't have it, then look up utmp(4)
>and write a 10-line function that will read in the structure
>declared there and in /usr/include/utmp.h.  I'm pretty sure that
>even BSD machines have this.  Even with job control, your utmp
>entry's ut_pid WILL be that of your ksh!    

BSD systems, just like the AT&T V7 systems from which they are
descended, do not have a "ut_pid" in their "utmp" entries.