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Date:      Wed,  1 Nov 1995 02:59:39 +0300 (MSK)
From:      =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= (aka Andrey A. Chernov, Black Mage) <ache@astral.msk.su>
To:        CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-CVSROOT@freefall.freebsd.org, Peter Wemm <peter@freefall.freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: CVSROOT log_accum.pl
Message-ID:  <aBhXhbmmt7@ache.dialup.demos.ru>
In-Reply-To: <aBREhbmuj6@ache.dialup.demos.ru>; from =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= at Wed,  1 Nov 1995 02:39:07 %2B0300 (MSK)
References:  <199510312317.PAA00986@freefall.freebsd.org> <aBREhbmuj6@ache.dialup.demos.ru>

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    =?KOI8-R?Q?=E1=CE=C4=D2=C5=CA_=FE=C5=D2=CE=CF=D7?= writes:

>In message <199510312317.PAA00986@freefall.freebsd.org> Peter Wemm
>    writes:

>>peter       95/10/31 15:17:14 (peter/633/peter)

>>  Modified:    .         log_accum.pl
>>  Log:
>>  For the moment, prefer the getpwuid($<) value over getlogin..
  
>>  Remove debugging output again.. (which proved that getlogin returns the
>>  wrong value sometimes..)

>getlogin depends on internal variable _logname_valid which is set
>after first sucessful getlogin call, then getlogin simple return
>its static data and even not issue syscall!!!

>How perl calls C-functions, it is the question...
>Maybe it call each C-function in the fork? I.e. _longname_valid
>always 0 for getlogin? Then it is perl bug, it seems that
>it change uids on the fly, then call getlogin for each of them.

You can to localize perl miss with simple script like:

#!/usr/bin/perl

while(1) {
print getlogin();
print " ";
print ((getpwuid($<))[0]);
print "\n";
}

If it works right, try to reproduce sequence from CVS .pl
exactly (in the infinite loop).

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov        : And I rest so composedly,  /Now, in my bed,
ache@astral.msk.su       : That any beholder  /Might fancy me dead -
http://dt.demos.su/~ache : Might start at beholding me,  /Thinking me dead.
RELCOM Team,FreeBSD Team :         E.A.Poe         From "For Annie" 1849



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