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>
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