Date: Tue, 15 Aug 1995 04:32:11 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Cc: FreeBSD-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/683: cron(8) Message-ID: <199508141832.EAA24876@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Question for you:
> Why the h*** do you care that cron runs a shell? What does
> the shell do that is so horrid that you want to break cron?
$ time sh -c "/bin/echo '/bin/sh is fat and slow'"
/bin/sh is fat and slow
0.59 real 0.23 user 0.30 sys
$ time /bin/echo '/bin/sh is fat and slow'
/bin/sh is fat and slow
0.22 real 0.11 user 0.07 sys
Bruce
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