Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 13:53:11 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com> Cc: "standards@FreeBSD.ORG" <standards@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: at utility and time format Message-ID: <200112171853.fBHIrBb35950@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <3C1CE7E6.F0D7B984@attbi.com> References: <3C1CC516.9AA6914B@attbi.com> <3C1CE7E6.F0D7B984@attbi.com>
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<<On Sun, 16 Dec 2001 12:28:54 -0600, Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com> 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
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