setlogin () -- what does it do?

[Chris Torek]

In article <1991Jun17.224939.1459 at hotmomma.UUCP> sdb%hotmomma at uunet.uu.net
(Scott Ballantyne) writes:
>... setlogin (username). Can someone tell me what this is
>supposed to do, or aim me at the man page?

setlogin is a privileged system call that sets the string to be
returned by getlogin(), another new system call.  This solves the
problem of describing the login of someone who does not have a `tty
slot' and thus cannot have an /etc/utmp entry.
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