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These functions, derived from BSD, are available in the separate libutil library, and declared in utmp.h.
Note that the ut_user
member of struct utmp
is called
ut_name
in BSD. Therefore, ut_name
is defined as an alias
for ut_user
in utmp.h.
This function makes filedes the controlling terminal of the current process, redirects standard input, standard output and standard error output to this terminal, and closes filedes.
This function returns 0
on successful completion, and -1
on error.
The login
functions inserts an entry into the user accounting
database. The ut_line
member is set to the name of the terminal
on standard input. If standard input is not a terminal login
uses standard output or standard error output to determine the name of
the terminal. If struct utmp
has a ut_type
member,
login
sets it to USER_PROCESS
, and if there is an
ut_pid
member, it will be set to the process ID of the current
process. The remaining entries are copied from entry.
A copy of the entry is written to the user accounting log file.
This function modifies the user accounting database to indicate that the user on ut_line has logged out.
The logout
function returns 1
if the entry was successfully
written to the database, or 0
on error.
The logwtmp
function appends an entry to the user accounting log
file, for the current time and the information provided in the
ut_line, ut_name and ut_host arguments.
Portability Note: The BSD struct utmp
only has the
ut_line
, ut_name
, ut_host
and ut_time
members. Older systems do not even have the ut_host
member.
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