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Re: rotating lastlog?



According to Raul Miller:
> I wonder about what would happen on systems with more usage than I,
> if the file continues to have its seek bounds raised, I'd think that
> 32 bit file systems would have problems.

Nope, think about it. uid_t is 16 bits; struct lastlog is 292 bytes with
glibc. So the maximum size is 65536*292 == 19136512 bytes == 18688K == 18M
Still size, not real diskspace in use.

Mike.
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 Miquel van Smoorenburg | Our vision is to speed up time,
    miquels@cistron.nl  |   eventually eliminating it.


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