Le Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 07:06:50PM -0500, Rob Landley a écrit : > But I never understood "crontab". (Nor why posix has crontab but not crond.) > We don't have "sshtab", we have ~/.ssh/files that the daemon parses as > necessary. Why the heck would crond be any different?
I agree and that's one of probably many inconsistencies in the norm. Now that you basically rewrote the whole userland, what would you change in the Unix/Posix standard to make it more consistent or practical maybe? I'll start: a single regex engine for everything. I don't want to remember the differences between grep, sed, awk, vi(m)… I guess a big part of Unix is just a bunch of software put together, sometimes somewhat overlapping (with often a fine rationale like awk and sed), with a few shared design patterns but loosely enforced, etc. Nothing really feels fundamental as in a mathematical sense, every piece is useful in the context of how the designers wanted to use their computer at the time. Maybe we can (should?) do better. And I'm not undermining the importance of what you are doing, the same tools with a better codebase already is a massive effort towards more hackable, predictable and fixable systems. -- Philippe _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list Toybox@lists.landley.net http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
