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

[Alexander Gattin]

Hi!

On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 11:31:24PM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Alexander Gattin (arg@online.com.ua):
> 
> > 
> >  HZ
> >     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..:)

Yes, this this could fit as such, but somewhere near
year 1991, as far as I remember the SCO Unix manpage
cited above.

IMHO, no program/util depends on HZ envvar anymore, at
least in BSD/Solaris/GNU/Linux world...

So, the description could say something like this:
In old times some programs like prof(CP) and times(S)
(SCO Unix) used to depend on HZ to the point of not
running at all if HZ wasn't defined.

-- 
WBR,
xrgtn