Hal Murray <hmur...@megapathdsl.net>: > > e...@thyrsus.com said: > > >We could easily and cleanly bypass the code that uses utmpx. That would > > > screwup accounting if time stepped by more than a second. > > > I'm not entirely clear on the referent of "that". The *bypass* would screw > > up accounting if time stepped by more than a second? > > I assume the time-changed info is used by accounting programs. Without that > info, any accounting and possibly billing data for the time logged in will be > off one way or the other if the time gets stepped while you are logged in.
OK. With that context, I think this stopped being a real issue a long time ago. Nobody bills by login time these days because pay-for-play timesharing is as dead as disco. It stopped making sense when personal worstations connected by fast networks became the thing. -- <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a> _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@ntpsec.org http://lists.ntpsec.org/mailman/listinfo/devel