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** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
Status: Triaged => Invalid
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Well, it seems that who computes the idle time by using the timestamps
of the tty device file, which are updated every time a process reads
input. The problem is that X ( and also emacs ) don't read from the
tty, so the timestamps are not updated.
I think that fixing this is going to require over
I agree. I was thinking of reassigning it to Xorg, but wasn't sure that
was the correct component that is supposed to be updating utmp. Is the
utmp file really updated every time you touch a key, and if so, by what
program? I was thinking that can't be the case, so there must be some
way the uti
@Phillip: I am confused -- why do you think this is a 'who' issue? 'who'
is a *browser* -- it only _reads_ the UTMP file, it does not change it
at all. And, since more and more programmes do not update UTMP, 'who' is
getting more and more unreliable.
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Wow this is an old one, and seems to have gotten worse. Now even
keyboard input does not reset the idle timer.
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: Incomplete => Triaged
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htt
I do agree with your answer, it's what I suggest as possible anwser n°1.
Basically, if the answer is so, what I say is there is still a bug... in the
documentation. Because who is a 30 years old *ix legacy, at this time a mouse
was not a frequent input device, hence the documentation does not men
Thank you for reporting this bug and helping make Ubuntu better. I am
downgrading this bug temporarily to Incomplete: 'who' (and 'pinky', a
reduced version of 'finger') base their output on the utmp(5) file.
Neither goes anywhere else.
In other words, 'who' is very much restricted to browsing the
After a few time of reflexion, here are my comments / suggestions about
this bug.
Who seems to be mainly a frontend to display nicely the informations in
/var/run/utmp (or /var/log/wtmp for the history).
The documentation says that these files, unfortunately (because it's not vey
good architectu
Zakhar,
I was able to confirm this bug using the suggestion you described.
** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
Status: New => Confirmed
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who (or w) does not report correctly idle time
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/268780
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