Re: wrong output of "who" and "finger"

[Pádraig Brady]

Burba, Viktor wrote:
> Dear GNU team,
> 
> I have a problem with output from "who" command. As you can see below
> 
> busdm:~ # who -u
> root     pts/0        Nov  2 15:56   .         21861 (192.168.0.20)
> root     pts/6        Jun 18 13:04   ?         15579 (10.11.20.1)
> 
> busdm:~ # uptime
>   4:06pm  up 3 days  2:19,  2 users,  load average: 0.42, 0.30, 0.16
> busdm:~ # date
> Mon Nov  2 16:07:04 CET 2009
> 
> 
> "who" shows me users logged in from Jun18, even so the host has been rebooted 
> 3 days ago and today's date of the host is 2nd Nov. Also there is no PID 
> 15579. Can you please explain this weird behaviour?

This is from my expanding TODO list...

`who` should not report older entries with dupe ttys or invalid pids

That's from ages ago so I'm not sure if it's
even possible to filter invalid entries like this.

cheers,
Pádraig.