Mail Archives: cygwin/2002/07/04/16:58:07
Corinna,
I think I got it right this time ...
Thanks for your work in tracking this down. It's much appreciated.
On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, 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.
Out of curiosity if it's a bug in cron, why has it only just manifested
itself with the latest version of cygwin1.dll? I assume that cron is using
some cygwin call incorrectly, which hasn't mattered until now?
Regards,
Tony.
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