Work around old buggy program which cannot cope with memcpy semantics.
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1 /* Copyright (C) 1996, 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
2 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
3 Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
5 The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
6 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
7 License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
8 version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
10 The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
11 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
12 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
13 Lesser General Public License for more details.
15 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
16 License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
17 Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
18 02111-1307 USA. */
20 #include <stdlib.h>
21 #include <utmp.h>
24 /* Local buffer to store the result. */
25 libc_freeres_ptr (static struct utmp *buffer);
28 struct utmp *
29 __getutent (void)
31 struct utmp *result;
33 if (buffer == NULL)
35 buffer = (struct utmp *) malloc (sizeof (struct utmp));
36 if (buffer == NULL)
37 return NULL;
40 if (__getutent_r (buffer, &result) < 0)
41 return NULL;
43 return result;
45 weak_alias (__getutent, getutent)