bug#21349: who shows no users nowadays on Debian

[Pádraig Brady]

On 26/08/15 00:14, 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson wrote:
> (info "(coreutils) who invocation") says
> 
> If given no non-option arguments, ‘who’ prints the following
> information for each user currently logged on: login name, terminal
> line, login time, and remote hostname or X display.
> 
> Say if this means
> remote hostname or remote X display.
> 
> or
> 
> X display or remote hostname.
> 
> By the way, now on Debian sid:
> 
> $ who
> $ ps a
>   PID TTY      STAT   TIME COMMAND
>   593 tty7     Ss+    0:10 /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg :0 -nolisten tcp vt7
>  1310 pts/0    Ss     0:00 bash
>  1338 pts/1    Ss     0:00 su -
>  1339 pts/1    S+     0:00 -su
>  2005 tty1     Ss+    0:00 /sbin/agetty --noclear tty1 linux
>  2073 pts/0    R+     0:00 ps a

Could you look a little deeper?
who(1) calls read_utmp() from:
http://git.sv.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=blob;f=lib/readutmp.c;hb=HEAD

thanks,
Pádraig.