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Date: Thu, 4 Jul 2002 21:56:58 +0100
From: tony DOT arnold AT man DOT ac DOT uk
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To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1
In-Reply-To: <20020704223253.I21857@cygbert.vinschen.de>
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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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