bug of misc/screen and fifos or ours?

Philip Paeps philip at freebsd.org
Fri Nov 19 00:17:37 PST 2004


On 2004-11-18 18:43:56 (+0200), Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at freebsd.org> wrote:
> The screen-4.0.2 version that misc/screen installs is apparently the latest
> version of screen available.  It also contains a zillion bugs, is written in
> a very insecure style, it uses an antiquated version of autoconf script,
> etc.

Unrelated, perhaps, but has anyone else noticed that on sparc64, the date
stuck in utmp seems to always be '19700101':

 | (philip at wotan)~% w
 |  9:16am  up 7 days,  7:52, 1 user, load averages: 0.08, 0.02, 0.01
 | USER             TTY      FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
 | philip           p1       loge:S.0         01Jan70     - w

I've not seen this happen on any other platforms...

 - Philip

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