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Re: RFC: lastlog access function


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H. J. Lu wrote:
> login from util-linux accesses lastlog directly. I am proposing this
> lastlog access interface. Any comments?

Yes: no way.  The existing interfaces are already too much of a pain.  I
don't want more of this crap.  These are interfaces only very specific
applications are interested in.  Create your own separate DSO if you
want to use a common implementation.  But this is nothing for libc.

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