From: voidlinux-github@inbox.vuxu.org
To: ml@inbox.vuxu.org
Subject: Re: libvirt broken in musl due to lack of utmpx implementation in musl
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2019 16:55:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191014145516.4ORQeIIEsfjdR_Oh5P9oZjPRyPbr6HZmHsk6aApUkYI@z> (raw)
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New comment by loreb on void-packages repository
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/14721#issuecomment-541727761
Comment:
@zippy2 fyi it's not creative interpretation, it's intentional because there's no way you can implement those functions sanely in a library - it's in their FAQ after all, you need an external process to implement them properly (the musl developers think a setuid executable because they are writing a libc, so all they need is to install /usr/local/bin/musl-utmp, ska prefers a daemon because he's writing a supervision suite + init).
There was even an article on hacker news a few months ago detailing in which ways these functions were broken on the various unices and how nobody cared enough to fix them; the only reasons I personally care (a little bit) are w(1) and "last login on $date", which are both broken on a musl-based distro.
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2019-09-25 18:17 [ISSUE] " voidlinux-github
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2019-10-11 17:08 ` voidlinux-github
2019-10-11 19:46 ` voidlinux-github
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2019-10-11 20:20 ` voidlinux-github
2019-10-11 20:21 ` voidlinux-github
2019-10-11 20:39 ` voidlinux-github
2019-10-11 20:40 ` voidlinux-github
2019-10-12 7:44 ` voidlinux-github
2019-10-12 7:45 ` [ISSUE] [CLOSED] " voidlinux-github
2019-10-12 12:27 ` voidlinux-github
2019-10-14 6:36 ` voidlinux-github
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