[DragonFlyBSD - Submit #3261] (Resolved) [PATCH] talkd: Find users for more than one talk request.

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Issue #3261 has been updated by dillon.

Status changed from New to Resolved
Assignee set to dillon

Committed c420de58e07cf2a47

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Submit #3261: [PATCH] talkd: Find users for more than one talk request.
http://bugs.dragonflybsd.org/issues/3261#change-13952

* Author: dancrossnyc
* Status: Resolved
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: dillon
* Category: Userland
* Target version: Latest stable
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talkd was written to use `utmpentry` from `who`, which
caches the results of read the `utmpx` file.  However,
talkd is usually invoked from inetd `wait` mode; it's
possible that a user might login after `talkd` starts;
with the cached utmpx data, one can't `talk` to that
user.

Further, consumption of the utmp data nulls it out for
subsequent requests.  The result is that the first talk
succeeds, but subsequent requests fail.

The fix is to avoid using the `utmpentry` machinery,
and just read `utmp` directly every time we need to.

---Files--------------------------------
0001-talkd-Find-users-in-more-than-one-talk-request.patch (4.78 KB)


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