On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:35:08AM -0400, Freels, James D. wrote: > way that renders it useless.
In a way that renders it compliant with the Single Unix Spec, Version 3. > Since the batch script will now accept no arguments, then what can it > possibly do ? Nothing ! The Single Unix Spec says that batch should be equivalent to at -q b -m now > As a workaround, we have placed the old batch command of v3.1.8-11 > into /usr/local/bin/ so that we can still use it above the delivered one > with v3.1.10. You could also invoke at directly, which has a standard-specified interface, and supports additional parameters for how to schedule jobs. You haven't given any examples of non-standard command lines that no longer work, so I don't know what you feel needs to be there. > Also, I agree that the reason for the change (bug report #70988) fixes > the man page to match what batch does. However, I think that a more > versatile batch is needed or just remove batch altogether. The reason for this choice of change is the specification.
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