Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-23 Thread Sergey Babkin
Greg Black wrote: Sergey Babkin wrote: There are other things which may not allow a job to finish in a predefined time slot. For example, other operations going on and consuming CPU, disk or network bandwidth. So presuming that a job would finish by some time is inherently unsafe.

Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-22 Thread Sergey Babkin
To mention it from the start, I've backed out my changes. (Yes, the pre-backed-out version was the one with the old behavior enabled by default and changed behavior enabled by an option). Doug Barton wrote: On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: Doug Barton wrote: This

Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-22 Thread Greg Black
Sergey Babkin wrote: To mention it from the start, I've backed out my changes. Thank you. There are other things which may not allow a job to finish in a predefined time slot. For example, other operations going on and consuming CPU, disk or network bandwidth. So presuming that a job

Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-21 Thread Peter Pentchev
On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 07:33:43PM -0800, Doug Barton wrote: You need to back out your changes and let the people who are proposing a more complete solution which has been widely discussed and agreed to have time to finish their work and send it to -arch for more discussion. Your

Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-21 Thread Sergey Babkin
Doug Barton wrote: This needs to be backed out immediately. This isn't even close to what was discussed in -hackers. After LONG, often pointless discussion, the following points were agreed to there. Could you please look at the changes first ? The changes I committed are _not_

Re: Dramatic cron changes are premature Was: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/cron/cron cron.8 cron.c cron.h

2001-01-21 Thread Doug Barton
On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Sergey Babkin wrote: Doug Barton wrote: This needs to be backed out immediately. This isn't even close to what was discussed in -hackers. After LONG, often pointless discussion, the following points were agreed to there. Could you please look at the