Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:42:35 +0100 From: Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org> To: Pavel Prokharau <pprokharau@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Yar Tikhiy <yar@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cron(8) related summer of code project Message-ID: <47E6422B.5060308@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <187fbcb00803230407q549fb9b8va6616d590763f76c@mail.gmail.com> References: <187fbcb00803230407q549fb9b8va6616d590763f76c@mail.gmail.com>
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Pavel Prokharau wrote: > I was thinking about updating our cron(8) implementation. This project is > mentioned in ideas list > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/ideas/#p-cron-and-atrun. > > For now my proposal is following: > > * update the code base to ISC (OpenBSD already has it for a while) > > * incorporate changes other BSDs has. First of all it's trivial security > fixes OpenBSD has (like strcpy -> strlcpy) > > * atrun(8) improvements as mentioned on ideas page > > * add privilege separation to cron(8). Its code base is really old and > likely to have security bugs. > > I'd like this work to be done a summer of code project. But I'm not sure > if amount of work proposed sufficient for summer of code. > > If you have some ideas about further improvements to cron(8) I'd be glad > hear them and work on it. I think these are good ideas but as you say it doesn't sound like 3 months worth of work. If you would like to submit a proposal relating to this project I think you will need to propose additional tasks to meet the length expectation. Kris
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