[Pkg-acpi-devel] Bug#510619: acpi-support: Use who, instand of w, because w truncates long usernames

[Luca Niccoli]

2009/4/16 Witold Baryluk <baryluk at smp.if.uj.edu.pl>:
> Package: acpi-support
> Version: 0.109-11
> Followup-For: Bug #510619
>
> 'w' truncates longer than 8 char long loings. Mayby use 'who'?

Err, I don't see how this is related to #510619, the username was
"torn" and, AFAICT, the problem was the his X session wasn't recorded
(w reported just two xterms)
Anyway, IIRC "who" had its problems as well, at one point I proposed a
patch to use pinky instead (see #502141), but I don't know if the
patch still applies.
I checked and pinky keeps long user names, the layout gets a bit
messed up but I that shouldn't disturb the script.
Cheers,

Luca

P.S.
Is it to be considered a bug of w that it truncates user names, or is
it supposed to?