Hello,
This is a simple change to print the date and time in the wall banner.
Previously just the time was printed. This made more sense during the era
of scarce and/or real terminals with interactive sessions of brief usage,
when a terminal was likely to be attended, but makes less sense in the era
of long-lived x-terminals, screen sessions, and so forth. The latter may
be left open for days or weeks at a time, and returning to one it may no
longer be obvious just when a wall message was sent. This can be relevant.
This adds the seconds and the date (locale-appropriate format) to the
wall banner, if any.
Regards,
Dave Rutherford <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
$ diff -u term-utils/wall.c.orig term-utils/wall.c
--- term-utils/wall.c.orig 2015-06-25 04:31:10.957160529 -0400
+++ term-utils/wall.c 2015-06-26 01:45:04.150729302 -0400
@@ -238,8 +238,9 @@
sprintf(lbuf, _("Broadcast Message from %s@%s"),
whom, hostname);
fprintf(fp, "%-79.79s\007\007\r\n", lbuf);
- sprintf(lbuf, " (%s) at %d:%02d ...",
- where, lt->tm_hour, lt->tm_min);
+ cnt = sprintf(lbuf, " (%s) at ", where);
+ mbuf = lbuf + cnt;
+ strftime(mbuf, 79-cnt, "%T %x ...", lt);
fprintf(fp, "%-79.79s\r\n", lbuf);
}
fprintf(fp, "%79s\r\n", " ");
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