Re: bug#64937: "who" reports funny dates

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> If I understand that discussion correctly, the idea is to switch from 
> utmp/utmpx to the systemd interface once systemd 254 comes out.
> 
> As it happens, systemd 254 was published Friday.

It's already contained in Fedora Rawhide.

> It'd be good to get it working with coreutils.

I've installed that Fedora Rawhide from yesterday and am working on a
prototype...

> I'm hoping we can simplify this by packaging the fix inside 
> Gnulib

Yes. Since not only coreutils, but also inetutils, uses the gnulib
module 'readutmp', it makes sense to put the fix into this gnulib
module.

Specific users, like 'uptime' in coreutils, can optimize things
afterwards when they need only a small subset, rather than all, of
the data returned by read_utmp().

Bruno