From owner-freebsd-standards Mon Dec 17 10:55:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E249C37C2A5 for ; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:53:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.11.4/8.11.4) id fBHIrBb35950; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:53:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:53:11 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200112171853.fBHIrBb35950@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Joe Halpin Cc: "standards@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: at utility and time format In-Reply-To: <3C1CE7E6.F0D7B984@attbi.com> References: <3C1CC516.9AA6914B@attbi.com> <3C1CE7E6.F0D7B984@attbi.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG < said: > However, I'm still wondering about this. Given that atrun only gets > called every five minutes, what's the point of trying to support > seconds? POSIX provides sufficient scheduling weasel-words to allow for rounding up to the nearest five-minute boundary. All it's requiring you is to accept the format, not actually schedule the event so precisely. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message