[Popcon-developers] Re: popularity-contest rewrite

[Bill Allombert]

On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 02:17:10AM -0400, apenwarr@nit.ca wrote:
> ldconfig updates the atime on all .so files, which are executable, and which
> in fact are valid ELF binaries.  So I decided only to capture "real"
> binaries, and (although I didn't remember until now) apparently header files
> and .a files.  I would love to catch .so files as well, but that's no good
> because of ldconfig.

Thanks Avery for the explanation! 

If only shared libraries are a problem, we should change the
regexp to catch anything but shared libraries.

Currently we ignore files like perl modules, python library etc...

Do you have any light with GNU acct ? (bug #87619)

Cheers,
Bill.