[ ... reminder after two weeks of silence ... ]
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 22:56 +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote:
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> [ I'm not subscribed to -hackers, please keep CC'ing me; thanks! ]
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> [ ... ]
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> This took the DST handling code of OpenBSD's cron, leaving the
> other diffs / details (capabilities, logging, errno handling, gcc
> work arounds, formatting, pipe/env etc stuff) aside.
>
> But what keeps me from feeding the changes back into the FreeBSD
> project by means of send-pr(1) is that I don't want to do so
> before testing that everything works as it should. That's where
> I fail miserably:
>
> [ ... ]
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> I'm lost. Please advise on how to best test this scenario.
> Without local tests I definitely won't publish the patch (don't
> feel at all like bothering others with code which doesn't work in
> its basic functionality).
>
> Having the logic in cron itself would eliminate the never ending
> discussion bubbling up twice a year on why cronjobs didn't run /
> ran multiple times and where to move daily cronjobs to (ending up
> every time with the result that _no_ time suits _all_ the FreeBSD
> users -- there simply are way too many of them ... :).
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