* Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> [250216 23:52]: > At this point I confess I don't know what changes would be needed for GNU > 'who'. I see a difference of opinion as to whether 'w' works. There seem to > be multiple mechanisms in play (utmp, wtmp, wtmpdb, lastlog2, logind, maybe > others?) and I don't know when to use which, or even how to use them except > for the traditional utmp/wtmp files. > > Perhaps whoever has changed the longstanding API (is that Thorsten Kukuk, or > someone else? anyway I'll cc Thorsten) can chime in with a proposed patch to > bleeding-edge GNU coreutils. This would probably mean a patch to Gnulib's > readutmp module, which already is supposed to work with systemd's new utmp > interfaces but I guess some people are reporting problems with it? (This is > unclear.) > > For what it's worth, I briefly looked at > <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE%3AFactory/coreutils> and > didn't see a patch there. So perhaps the problem is already addressed in > bleeding-edge Coreutils?
Looks like if Debian would build coreutils with --enable-systemd, it would just work: https://sources.debian.org/src/coreutils/9.5-1/lib/readutmp.c/?hl=678#L678 Chris
