From: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 08:51:46 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: docs: add note to wall(1) about sessions which will not get message
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docs: add note to wall(1) about sessions which will not get message

Sessions that has in utmp data ut_line begining with ':' are skipped.
This is done to avoid write errors to devices such as '/dev/:0'.  For
example wdm is reported to to generate such utmp line.

Perhaps in future this code should be revalidated.  If an utmp data
contains broken device lines it might be best inform user with a error
message, rather than skipping silently suspicious device entries.

Signed-off-by: Sami Kerola <kerolasa@iki.fi>
---

diff --git a/term-utils/wall.1 b/term-utils/wall.1
index 9bf3b2653c..bb56625800 100644
--- a/term-utils/wall.1
+++ b/term-utils/wall.1
@@ -73,6 +73,12 @@ Output version and exit.
 .TP
 \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
 Output help and exit.
+.SH NOTES
+Some sessions, such as wdm, that has in beginning of
+.BR utmp (5)
+ut_type data ':' character will not get message from
+.BR wall .
+This is done to avoid write errors.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 .BR mesg (1),
 .BR talk (1),