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

[Christian Perrier]

Quoting Alexander Gattin (arg@online.com.ua):

> 
>  HZ
>     Defines, with a numerical value, the number of
>     clock interrupts per second.  The value of this
>     variable is dependent on the hardware, and
>     configured in the file /etc/initscript. If HZ is
>     not defined, programs which depend on this hertz
>     value, such as prof(CP) and times(S), will not run.

This could fit as the requested description. And allow us to close
this bug..:)