user disappears from w and who

[Kevin D. Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P.]

Karol Kwiatkowski wrote:

>Brandon Lodriguss wrote:
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>>It seems like utmp/wtmp is getting updated when the user logs out of the 
>>second shell, then it ignores the fact that the user is still logged in to 
>>the original shell.
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>
>I've got curious and investigated a bit. It looks like when user logs
>in the second time (and it doesn't matter that he logs in as himself)
>system information gets updated just like the previous session was
>ended (like user logged off before logging in).
>
>I hope that will help someone with further investigation (I'm not
>familiar with the source).
>  
>

IANAE, and I'm not sure if I understand the problem.  Isn't
it acting as expected?  From login(5):

   -p      By default, login discards any previous environment.  The -p
             option disables this behavior.

Kevin Kinsey