From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 3 May 1999 02:38:50 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (read_utmp): Ignore the return value from utmpname.
X-Git-Tag: cvs-readonly~7349
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ceaf650f32c8f1cb73a760c0db8f43eeb897d442;p=gnulib.git

(read_utmp): Ignore the return value from utmpname.
---

diff --git a/lib/readutmp.c b/lib/readutmp.c
index f2fd7f933..9fb4442c3 100644
--- a/lib/readutmp.c
+++ b/lib/readutmp.c
@@ -66,8 +66,11 @@ read_utmp (const char *filename, int *n_entries, STRUCT_UTMP **utmp_buf)
   STRUCT_UTMP *u;
   STRUCT_UTMP *utmp = NULL;
 
-  if (utmpname (filename))
-    return 1;
+  /* Ignore the return value for now.
+     Solaris' utmpname returns 1 upon success -- which is contrary
+     to what the GNU libc version does.  In addition, older GNU libc
+     versions are actually void.   */
+  utmpname (filename);
 
   setutent ();