1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/networking/telnetd.c b/networking/telnetd.c
index 671529d37..07c6a6a73 100644
--- a/networking/telnetd.c
+++ b/networking/telnetd.c
@@ -314,6 +314,8 @@ make_new_session(
         /* Restore default signal handling ASAP */
         bb_signals((1 << SIGCHLD) + (1 << SIGPIPE), SIG_DFL);
 
+        pid = getpid();
+
         if (ENABLE_FEATURE_UTMP) {
                 len_and_sockaddr *lsa = get_peer_lsa(sock);
                 char *hostname = NULL;
@@ -335,7 +337,6 @@ make_new_session(
         xopen(tty_name, O_RDWR); /* becomes our ctty */
         xdup2(0, 1);
         xdup2(0, 2);
-        pid = getpid();
         tcsetpgrp(0, pid); /* switch this tty's process group to us */
 
         /* The pseudo-terminal allocated to the client is configured to operate