From: dhighley AT halcyon DOT com (David Highley) Subject: Re: ps and kill 6 Dec 1996 13:18:51 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612062044.AA13806.cygnus.gnu-win32@halcyon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com In-Reply-To: <199612061751.JAA16194@canuck.cygnus.com> from "Doug Evans" at Dec 6, 96 09:51:08 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Length: 2080 Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > > From: "Ben Constable" > 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 .... > - > For help on using this list, send a message to > "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help". > -- Regards, ___________________________________________________________ | David Highley | Alias: Tree Huggers QA Lab | | Highley Recommended, Inc. | Phone: (206) 669-0081 | | 2927 SW 339th Street | FAX (206) 838-8509 | | Federal Way, WA 98023-7732 | E-mail: dhighley AT halcyon DOT com | | http://www.halcyon.com/dhighley/ | |____________________________|______________________________| - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".