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Fw: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch
- From: "Joshua" <jle at post dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2002 20:41:06 -0600
- Subject: Fw: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch
Forwarding to the list for the explanation of the file size of lastlog.
BCNU//jle
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Bradshaw" <bradshaw@staff.crosswalk.com>
To: "'Joshua'" <jle@post.com>
Sent: Friday, 04 January, 2002 15:40
Subject: RE: login 1.4-2 LASTLOG file mismatch
<<SNIP>>
> Lastlog is a bit strange. Instead of logging the UID of the information
> being stored, it indexes into the file a certain amount to denote the UID.
> For instance, if the information block that's stored at login takes up 256
> bytes, when a user with a UID of 400 logs in login will go into the file
> 400*256 bytes to find the appropriate spot to store that block of
> information. Seems like a bad way to go, but there you are. That's why
it
> suddenly balooned. It created a whole bunch of empty space just to put
the
> your login information in the "proper" place.
>
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