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Re: RFC: lastlog access function


On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 03:55:47PM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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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.
> 

In that case, does "struct lastlog" really belong to glibc?


H.J.


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