From: "Gerd Stolpmann" <info@gerd-stolpmann.de>
To: "malc" <av1474@comtv.ru>
Cc: "\"Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez\"" <jimenezrick@gmail.com>,
caml-list@inria.fr
Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Unix.getlogin () fails when stdin is redirected
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:29:19 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <21e18417ea60387375a493c44907735e.squirrel@gps.dynxs.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.00.1203210615050.4731@linmac>
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2012, Ricardo Catalinas Jim?nez wrote:
>
>> I found out the next issue in this simple code:
>>
>> let () =
>> print_endline "Hello";
>> print_endline (Unix.getlogin ())
>>
>> Running in the normal case, with `./a.out' gives:
>
> FWIW on my machine (linux) calling getlogin from any PTY always fails
> (be it screen or some sort of X terminal)
I guess /var/run/utmp is not world-readable - which is a perfectly
reasonable configuration, and means that you disabled getlogin
administratively.
Does "last -f /var/run/utmp" give an output?
Gerd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-21 11:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-20 17:51 Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez
2012-03-20 18:07 ` [Caml-list] " Ricardo Catalinas Jiménez
2012-03-20 18:28 ` David House
2012-03-20 18:48 ` Till Varoquaux
2012-03-20 19:41 ` Yaron Minsky
2012-03-20 20:12 ` Till Varoquaux
2012-03-20 22:45 ` oliver
2012-03-21 12:26 ` Török Edwin
2012-03-21 2:17 ` [Caml-list] " malc
2012-03-21 11:29 ` Gerd Stolpmann [this message]
2012-03-21 17:59 ` malc
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