RFC: lastlog access function

[H. J. Lu]

On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 10:28:47AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
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> H. J. Lu wrote:
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> > There are only very few programs which use "struct lastlog".
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> I'm not deliberately breaking the API forno reason other than preventing
> possible problems.  Programmers aren't supposed to be stupid; if they
> are, it's their and their user's problem.
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We did an audit. Only login in util-linux and lastlog in shadow-utils
access /var/log/lastlog. I won't call a "struct lastlog" without
access functions nor documentation an API. Modifying login and lastlog
to use a new library with access functions is very trivial.


H.J.