From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 10 12:55:39 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dt051n37.san.rr.com (dt051n37.san.rr.com [204.210.32.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6F0737B699 for ; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:55:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from slave (Studded@slave [10.0.0.1]) by dt051n37.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA91291; Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:52:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 12:52:29 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton X-X-Sender: To: Neil Blakey-Milner Cc: Greg Black , Dan Langille , Subject: Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) In-Reply-To: <20010110151211.A37285@mithrandr.moria.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 -- "The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment." -- Theodore H. White Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message