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Michael Kerrisk 2008-06-29 04:51:21 +00:00
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@ -253,7 +253,8 @@ Clearing \fIut_id\fP may result
in race conditions leading to corrupted utmp entries and potential
security holes.
Clearing the above mentioned fields by filling them
with null bytes is not required by System V semantics, but it allows to run
with null bytes is not required by System V semantics,
but makes it possible to run
many programs which assume BSD semantics and which do not modify utmp.
Linux uses the BSD conventions for line contents, as documented above.
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