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Cerulean · Jul 6th, 2005, 9:40 AM

Alternatively you can spawn a new who process every few seconds and read its output. That would be easier than parsing /var/run/utmp, but you'd get a performance hit for spawning a new process so often - i'd go with the file parsing option myself.

Jul 6th, 2005, 9:40 AM	#7
Cerulean Professional Programmer Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: London, England Posts: 459 Rep Power: 4	Alternatively you can spawn a new who process every few seconds and read its output. That would be easier than parsing /var/run/utmp, but you'd get a performance hit for spawning a new process so often - i'd go with the file parsing option myself.