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Re: RFC: lastlog access function
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- To: "H. J. Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 15:55:47 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC: lastlog access function
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <20030804224439.GA22119@lucon.org>
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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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