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Date:      Thu, 11 Jan 2001 23:08:45 +1300
From:      "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To:        Greg Black <gjb@gbch.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how to test out cron.c changes? (was: cvs commit: src/etc crontab) 
Message-ID:  <200101111008.XAA33155@ducky.nz.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <nospam-3a5d5b66040447e@maxim.gbch.net>
References:  <200101110647.TAA32661@ducky.nz.freebsd.org> 	of Thu, 11 Jan 2001 19:47:21 %2B1300

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On 11 Jan 2001, at 17:06, Greg Black wrote:

> And, as I said previously, I'd want to know how the new code
> coped with cron being stopped and restarted during one of the
> DST transition times, as well as seeing assurances that the
> legacy version would do the same thing then as it does now.

If the changes are modular, and I sure hope they are, it would almost 
be a matter of:

if newcode then
   call new stutt
end if

But I'm guessing it's going to be a *bit* more complicated than that.

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Dan Langille
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