bug of misc/screen and fifos or ours?

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2004-11-19 09:17, Philip Paeps <philip at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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':

I'll have a look later today and this weekend to the utmp handling of
screen.  It may be just a bug that shows up on 64-bit architectures.

>  | (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...

Does anyone on amd64 use screen to see if this happens there too?