[Planetlab-users] getlogin() returns null

[Steve Muir]

On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Stephen Soltesz wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Is getlogin() known not to work within planetlab/vserver?
>
> When I run it within a vserver, it returns NULL.  Is this a configuration 
> error on my part?

what's the value of errno?  have you tried running strace to see what 
getlogin is doing and at what point it fails?  (you can install strace 
using yum if necessary)  my best guess right now is that this is broken by 
the way /dev/pts is configured inside a vserver, which unfortunately you 
probably can't do much about as a user.