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Subject: Re: sys/utmp.h: login(3)
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On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 09:22:10PM -0500, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote:
>I've come across a difference between the prototypes of login(3) on
>Cygwin and Linux.  On Linux, login() takes a const struct utmp *; our
>login (both stable and HEAD) doesn't specify const.
>
>More details at <http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=130219#c12>.

I just checked in a patch which a const to most of the functions that
take utmp struct pointers.

Thanks.

cgf

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