[uClibc]more utent fun.

[Erik Andersen]

On Wed Apr 03, 2002 at 06:45:02AM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> Ok Erik, now riddle me this...
> in pututline,  const struct utmp *utmp_entry is passed into it..
> later on it attempts write(ut_fd, (char *) utmp_entry, sizeof(utmp_entry));
> won't that merely write out the address of utmp_entry? isn't proper 
> behaviour write(ut_fd, (char *) utmp_entry, sizeof(*utmp_entry));

Again, good spotting.  This code was totally broken.  It wouldn't
write out the address, but as was it would only write the first
sizeof-a-pointer bytes (i.e. 4 bytes on x86) which is clearly
wrong.  Can you try out the fixeI just checked into CVS?

 -Erik

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