Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:52:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> Cc: Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>, Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101101246510.91066-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20010110151211.A37285@mithrandr.moria.org>
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On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Neil Blakey-Milner wrote:
> To summarise: It is broken,
According to your definition of broken, which we have not
necessarily reached a consensus on.
> Not only that, but people who don't understand that it is broken are
> unable to understand simple facts.
Or perhaps we understand the simple facts, but there are more
complex facts that make this change a bad idea.
> In addition, it took the FreeBSD
> project about 7 years to finally get their daily runs to run exactly
> once, once every day.
This is overstating the case. It was never really considered a
huge issue by most, and at various times in the past the "correct" change
for the majority of our userbase got mired down in socio-political
arguments that had nothing to do with the technical merits.
> What we haven't seen is any technical opposition to the algorithm used,
> which has been explained.
What you are seeing is opposition to the idea itself. I'm not
going to waste time analyzing the implementation of what I think is a bad
idea. :)
Doug
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