From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 23 16:53:06 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 030AE625; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:53:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-qa0-x235.google.com (mail-qa0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c00::235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A5B702C63; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:53:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-qa0-f53.google.com with SMTP id j15so5958750qaq.12 for ; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:53:04 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0sWqHEGydxuaczC4V84JWnAvAHzK0CKT3w1mVjgsq5A=; b=tFlOLa6WWhH862f7oW/xcWm5Yyu4wGirF2yG5l2vfEyf5I0oBqlGHoH6nbiQNWHlEp /z8uTNoZq5VSADVjAOwF6hhSDpuB4exx96KJ2+KxZ22RgzwmKwJP2lix2o2Yihq2Oa2Y 6I/+rRS+q4YMknCZYQiu0UJSS3bMU5C/Rr14jE0p5SKCBu9HQ+HZX6GjxlWZj3fMnvHs Udj6G3LV7G/ZGxmJRS3osjBTilCbx8OUzz3JX0uUhrbXfTZtIiyPIzkKnmnKXa2FqX5/ OSKyB2WMY/ty43Y3K6d72YQwxHoYNH5Hjs1YphC/q/9Mqgb99EPftZdc7OeEXQZzq4cH LwMw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.140.47.16 with SMTP id l16mr33095143qga.24.1403542384777; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:53:04 -0700 (PDT) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.224.43.134 with HTTP; Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:53:04 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <53A72666.8090101@cox.net> <53A78C13.8030909@freebsd.org> <53A82008.9050002@digiware.nl> Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:53:04 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: wiQk8ivYWjxhZee_F5bXNeYLeuk Message-ID: Subject: Re: Improve cron(8) From: Adrian Chadd To: =?UTF-8?Q?Tomek_Wa=C5=82aszek?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" , Willem Jan Withagen , Alfred Perlstein X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 16:53:06 -0000 On 23 June 2014 06:26, Tomek Wa=C5=82aszek wrote: > Hello, > I got your point. > From the technical perspective it should be quite easy to implement this > feature, but I'm not sure whether this will get positive feedback. I > remeber that there was a discussion on the OpenBSD mailing lists (there w= as > even a patch for this) but they don't like the idea :) maybe FreeBSD > project will like it, I don't know. > > At the moment I want to update FreeBSD cron to ISC cron (with all the > features that FreeBSD has at the moment and ISC does not have) and > integrate atrun into cron like it was done in OpenBSD cron. After that (o= r > faster who knows :)) maybe we should have a discussion about this idea. Sweet! Well, hm. How should we do it? Can we run both cron's in the same source tree and just pick which to build/install? They're both different crons, right? Or is there a common ancestor that makes the diff not so terrible? -a