kpty/utempter

[David Faure]

On Monday 30 November 2015 20:21:23 René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> I've had a quick look, and it appears that it shouldn't be overly hard to port libutempter to OS X (which has setutxent, pututxline etc. instead of "x-less" counterparts on Linux).
> 
> Question is, how useful is this in KPty?

`utempter is a privileged helper program that writes utmp/wtmp entries for unprivileged programs.`

Does utmp or wtmp exist on OSX?
Hmm, yes, but deprecated -- https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/utmp.5.html
So probably not worth it.

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