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Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 23:28:03 +0100
From: "Blair Sutton" <blairuk AT googlemail DOT com>
To: "Pierre A. Humblet" <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org>, cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe
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I'm not sure if that's a very good solution. It spawns an unnecessary
bourne shell process on each new cron job.

Don't worry if you don't want to make the change. I will maintain my
own separate branch and perhaps post the patch with some instructions
somewhere online where other people may find it useful.

Best regards
Blair

On 6/5/08, Pierre A. Humblet <Pierre DOT Humblet AT ieee DOT org> wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Blair Sutton" <>
> To: <cygwin>
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 12:48 PM
> Subject: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and
> CMD.exe
>
>
> | Hi
> |
> | This is a very simple patch for Cron to allow one to use a shell like
> | powershell or cmd. I've done some testing and it appears to work well.
> |
> | I simply introduce a new environment variable called SHELLSWICTH that
> | defaults to "-c" if not used. Otherwise, one can set it to "/c" or
> | "-Command" for Windows shells.
> |
>
> ************
> Hi Blair,
>
> I maintain cron for cygwin, thanks for your contribution.
> There are other simple ways to achieve your goals,
> without changing cron.
>
> For example SHELL could be /some/path/sh2powershell
> and sh2powershell be a sh script such as
> #! /bin/sh
> shift
> exec powershell -Command "$*"
>
> Wouldn't that work as well for you?
>
> Pierre
>

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