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GNU 'uptime' on OpenBSD always prints "0 users"

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Bruno Haible <bruno <at> clisp.org>, 64954 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64954: GNU 'uptime' on OpenBSD always prints "0 users"
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2023 09:38:01 +0100

On 30/07/2023 20:43, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 2023-07-30 11:41, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> I'm fine with the change, but we'll also need to adjust
>> the sc_prohibit_always_true_header_tests syntax check in gnulib
> 
> I looked into that but it's such a hassle that I came up with the
> attached simpler patch to Coreutils. How about installing it instead? No
> Gnulib change should be needed.

Maybe, though I notice that gnulib docs
state the following platforms have neither getutent or getutxent,
and so might have issues with this?

OpenBSD 6.7, Minix 3.1.8, mingw, MSVC 14

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