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Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:19:00 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution?
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On Oct 20 15:42, Xavier Nodet wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:10:58 +0200 Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com> wrote:
> 
> > Since that's not only a Cygwin issue, did you check upstream, if that
> > problem has already been solved?
> 
> I had not. But I just tried to find a newer version, and found one on
>   <ftp://ftp.roedu.net/pub/mirrors/gentoo.org/distfiles/vixie-cron-4.1.tar.bz2>

Erm?!?  Last time I checked cron was still on version 3.0.1.

> I glanced at the code in this file, and it seems to handle the case of
> time-shifts. It also already has the Cygwin-specific fix that changes
> the standard streams. Maybe this code could be directly used in Cygwin?

Very likely not.  Cygwin needed a couple of patches which are annoyingly
Windows and Cygwin specific.  I'm not prepared to use a newer version of
cron right now for several reasons.  Perhaps I can look into making a
cron updated in a couple of weeks.  However, if somebody is interested
in taking over Cygwin cron maintainership, feel free!


Corinna

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