From:	dhighley AT halcyon DOT com (David Highley)
Subject:	Re: ps and kill
6 Dec 1996 13:18:51 -0800 :
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> 
>    From: "Ben Constable" <s2172184 AT cse DOT unsw DOT edu DOT au>
>    Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 03:02:48 +1100
> 
>    Also, when I run who, I get:
> 
>    who: /var/run/utmp: No such file or directory

If you create the directory structure and touch the file the diagnostic
message will go away.  Then if you create the /etc/passwd and /etc/group
files to match what you get from the id command it seems to work on a
Win95 system.

> 
>    What kind of response is this? NT does not store user information in a file
>    called /var/run/utmp. Maybe if we wrote a device driver which mapped a file
>    of that name to a dump of current logged on users, it would work.
> 
> Maybe `who' has been ported to NT yet.
> You'll find there are lots of such binaries that will compile but
> that no one has had time yet to see whether they do anything appropriate
> or not.
> 
>    While I am sending mail to the list, I would like to voice my opinion that
>    a project like this one will only start to work if two versions are made -
>    one for NT and one for 95. NT is too different to use the same source set.
>    What do people think of this?

This should be a solvable, especialy as Microsoft moves Win95 in the
direction of NT.  If there is a need for seperate code it should be
carefully limited.

> 
> One difference between the linux project and the gnu-win32 project
> is the several orders of magnitude of difference in quantity of
> contributed patches ....
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