Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2020 18:00:13 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Cc: "Simon J. Gerraty" <sjg@juniper.net>, Josh Aas <josh@kflag.net>, Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>, "N.J. Mann" <njm@njm.me.uk>, "freebsd-arch@freebsd.org" <freebsd-arch@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: updating cron and atrun Message-ID: <CAJ-Vmon_jw83Zycy52VyeUJ-Yzp-vHEK4pCE33GpcBqbRWnLAw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAGMYy3uoCOnyPj4VGCT1T77Vy0TWiNUp9FT=o0GNztV3veCqYA@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAJzSF_7N4A-_6LfjivWRirNkTHv3ANWu%2BBX6g1UOKqdYmDZZNA@mail.gmail.com> <6701.1581190231@critter.freebsd.dk> <97A66670F59C9C626B5090E3@triton.njm.me.uk> <8967.1581243035@critter.freebsd.dk> <55C50689-6DA8-4D44-92BB-72C38B54AC96@cschubert.com> <202002091350.019DoZrf084564@slippy.cwsent.com> <CAJzSF_5dEhnEx5wKGyJ6NrjyJtSiscH9EDrZH-y9EFnE1kN25w@mail.gmail.com> <202002091605.019G5Csj051412@slippy.cwsent.com> <CAJzSF_77peGakgSQXKoVF3x03ZaSRND2tAkaJNe-TG1TC8Fr1Q@mail.gmail.com> <584.1581370678@kaos.jnpr.net> <CAGMYy3uoCOnyPj4VGCT1T77Vy0TWiNUp9FT=o0GNztV3veCqYA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, 10 Feb 2020 at 20:59, Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> wrote: > > Also note that it's not something that is high effort at all, because > others have already implemented it, and did so in less than 700 lines of > code, with license block included. I'd say bringing OpenBSD cron is a low > hanging fruit if someone wants to do something in the project, and IMHO > there is no reason to remove the functionality because of that. > > I have worked on bringing OpenBSD cron to FreeBSD a while ago (I think it > was ~2012) but never committed it because subversion made my life hard > (well, partially -- I should have created a branch on user/ but I didn't) > to keep my local patches on the move to the point that eventually I have > gave up maintaining it. Hm, just a note - vixie mentioned about putting his base cron online and ifdef'ing in freebsd bits. The twitter thread talks about openbsd. https://twitter.com/paulvixie/status/1214286886094589952 Maybe reach out to him? :) -a
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