[PATCH] Fix comparison between two character arrays

Jordi Sanfeliu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lib.newlib
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

The member 'id' in the 'utmp' struct is not a numeric but a character 
array, hence the strncmp() function is needed to compare two members.

diff --git a/newlib/libc/unix/getut.c b/newlib/libc/unix/getut.c
index 89ed739..71a8c8f 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/unix/getut.c
+++ b/newlib/libc/unix/getut.c
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ getutid (struct utmp *id)
  	case LOGIN_PROCESS:
  	case USER_PROCESS:
  	case DEAD_PROCESS:
-	  if (id->ut_id == utmp_data.ut_id)
+	  if (!strncmp (id->ut_id, utmp_data.ut_id, sizeof (utmp_data.ut_id)))
  	    return &utmp_data;
  	  break;
  	default:

Thanks.

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