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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 22:32:53 +0200
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1
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On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 04:26:05PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:19:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >I did so.  It took a while to understand but it's actually a bug
> >in the Cygwin version of cron.  I wondered why the same effect
> >doesn't happen on Linux but the big difference between the official
> >source and the Cygwin source of cron is the initialization of the
> >environment.  I'll fix that and release a new version soon.
> 
> Wow, that's good news!  I was at a loss to understand how HOME could
> be initialized incorrectly.  I actually installed cron to test this
> myself.
> 
> Thanks for tracking this down.

You're welcome.  I'm always happy if I'm able to track that down to
an application bug instead of a Cygwin bug :-)

Corinna

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