Bug in rwhod

Chuck Privitera crp at ccivax.UUCP
Sat Sep 8 01:27:04 AEST 1984


Index: /usr/src/etc/rwhod/rwhod.c 4.2BSD

Description:
	There is a minor nit in rwhod as distributed with 4.2 .
In the routine onalrm(), they stat /etc/utmp to try to avoid
re-reading it if it hasn't changed since the last time they 
read it. The only problem is that they never save the last-read
time, so rwhod re-reads utmp every minute. The one line fix
is given below in a context diff.

Repeat-by:
	Just read the code.

Fix:
	rcsdiff -c -r1.1 rwhod.c
	RCS file: RCS/rwhod.c,v
	retrieving revision 1.1
	diff -c -r1.1 rwhod.c
	*** /tmp/,RCSt1002139   Fri Sep  7 10:29:39 1984
	--- rwhod.c     Fri Sep  7 10:27:41 1984
	***************
	*** 235,240
		alarmcount++;
		(void) fstat(utmpf, &stb);
		if (stb.st_mtime != utmptime) {
			(void) lseek(utmpf, (long)0, L_SET);
			cc = read(utmpf, (char *)utmp, sizeof (utmp));
			if (cc < 0) {

	--- 235,241 -----
		alarmcount++;
		(void) fstat(utmpf, &stb);
		if (stb.st_mtime != utmptime) {
	+               utmptime = stb.st_mtime;
			(void) lseek(utmpf, (long)0, L_SET);
			cc = read(utmpf, (char *)utmp, sizeof (utmp));
			if (cc < 0) {
-- 
		Chuck Privitera,  Computer Consoles Inc.
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