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From: benson@odi.UUCP (Benson Margulies)
Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
Subject: utmp registration, anyone?
Message-ID: <308@odi.UUCP>
Date: 26 Apr 89 15:00:36 GMT
Reply-To: benson@odi.UUCP (Benson Margulies)
Distribution: gnu
Organization: Object Design Inc., Burlington, MA
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When creating a process (in create_process), emacs 18.53 does not put
an entry in /etc/utmp. This causes getlogin to return 0, which causes
sunOS4 sendmail (among other things) to fail in shell buffers.  It
would be nice if emacs 19 were to hack utmp registration.  code can be
found in the source of xterm.

-- 
Benson I. Margulies