On Aug 25, 11:33pm, track@Plectere.com (List Mail User) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: bin/31072: w  doesn't update ownership of tty

| The following reply was made to PR bin/31072; it has been noted by GNATS.
| 
| From: List Mail User <track@Plectere.com>
| To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
| Cc: paul@Plectere.com
| Subject: Re: bin/31072: w  doesn't update ownership of tty
| Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 16:32:51 -0700 (PDT)
| 
|  	This is like not a bug in /bin/login, but a difference between
|  the various shells' built-in "login" functions and /bin/login.  For example,
|  the built-in function of login" in /bin/csh gives exactly the behavior
|  mentioned in the bug;  The "workaround" is to type "exec login" - whether
|  or not it is a bug, someone else may determine, but I've been using this
|  "workaround" for several years and it indeed will then change the tty's
|  ownership (vs. the "csh" built-in "login", which does not).
|  
|  	Paul Shupak

This is unlikely, because all the "built-in" login does is to exec
/usr/bin/login, instead of fork and wait for it.

christos