[Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#265613: What is the purpose of HZ in login.defs?

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 06:52:39PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> In #265613, the bug submitter request for the use of HZ to be
> commented/documented.
> 
> Does anyone in the team know what this variable is meant for?

This is supposed to represent rate of system clock.
So HZ==100 means 100Hz. Funny thing is that using
environment variable for storing this presumes system
clock to possibly be different for different processes,
which is of course plain nonsense. :)

Also I don't know a single useful program that relies
on value of this variable.

Let's ask about HZ on #debian -- maybe there's somebody
old enough to remember and not too old to lost all
his memories :) about what was this envvar used for in
archaic times...

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