On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 09:41:55PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote: >On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 03:20:10PM -0000, Max Bowsher wrote: >>We've had no proof of advantages (except in one very restricted corner >>case), and no disproof of disadvantages (i.e. speed penalties). > >Running a speed test would be interesting of course, but I point to an >advantage for most of us: with 32 bit uids the /var/log/lastlog file >can become enormous. Fortunately (for systems that support sparse >files), it is sparse.
I think we'll have to come up with some other way of dealing with /var/log/lastlog for Win 9x though, won't we? cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
