small bug in who(1) of SVR3

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Sat Jan 12 08:57:50 AEST 1991


In article <1991Jan10.130738.10194 at unhtel.uucp> paul at unhtel.uucp (Paul S. Sawyer) writes:
>$ who -Hq
>argos jed lookout paul paul root 
># users=6

Of course the actual bug is that "who" has no business being designed
this way.  If you want columnation, it is trivial (who|6, for example),
as is a user count (who|wc).  Building such functionality into the
"who" command is so much against UNIX design principles that I have to
wonder who could have approved such features.



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