Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 16:19:00 +0200 From: Corinna Vinschen To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Problems with cron and hibernation: a solution? Message-ID: <20041020141900.GM14414@cygbert.vinschen.de> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20041020121058.GK14414@cygbert.vinschen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2i On Oct 20 15:42, Xavier Nodet wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2004 14:10:58 +0200 Corinna Vinschen wrote: > > > Since that's not only a Cygwin issue, did you check upstream, if that > > problem has already been solved? > > I had not. But I just tried to find a newer version, and found one on > Erm?!? Last time I checked cron was still on version 3.0.1. > I glanced at the code in this file, and it seems to handle the case of > time-shifts. It also already has the Cygwin-specific fix that changes > the standard streams. Maybe this code could be directly used in Cygwin? Very likely not. Cygwin needed a couple of patches which are annoyingly Windows and Cygwin specific. I'm not prepared to use a newer version of cron right now for several reasons. Perhaps I can look into making a cron updated in a couple of weeks. However, if somebody is interested in taking over Cygwin cron maintainership, feel free! Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/