It seems comsat stats the utmpx database each 15 seconds to see whether
it has been changed. I am changing this behaviour to look at the utmpx
database upon processing. I don't want to allow direct interference with
the database files. I also wonder whether this optimization has any
measurable performance benefit nowadays.
Pseudo-terminals allocated with posix_openpt(2) will have more slashes
in their path names than comsat(8) allows, so allow slashes when the
character device name starts with "pts/".
This patch is loosely based on NetBSD's changes, revision 1.33. Because
it also included the changes to fork(), I imported them here as well.
Maybe we could import even more fixes from the other BSD's?
Original commit message from the NetBSD folks:
PR/30170: Markus W Kilbinger: src/libexec/comsat complains
about: '/' in "/dev/pts/1"
Reported by: Robert Huff <roberthuff rcn com>
comsat:
only send two bell charecters if S_IXGRP is set and S_IXUSR is not.
biff:
add new option 'b' to set S_IXGRP.
PR: 10931
Submitted by: Andrew J. Korty <ajk@purdue.edu>
Approved by: sheldonh (mentor)
MFC after: 1 month
atoi -> strtoll
fseek -> fseeko
NOTE: that fseek not works for >long offsets per POSIX:
[EOVERFLOW] For fseek( ), the resulting file offset would be a value which
cannot be represented correctly in an object of type long.
Fix minor cast too.
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.