Michael Stone <mst...@debian.org> writes: > I'm the one who gets the complaints that who isn't working right, and > there isn't a solution to that problem, since the systemd facility > doesn't provide the same information. I'd argue that a lot of people > didn't realize how screwed up things were going to be, because the > change didn't impact normal use until after a reboot.
I think if a fix is not possible, who(1) should at least terminate with an error code (and possibly display an error message) rather than failing silently as it currently does. Of course, some forms like "who -b" still work.