On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:30:16PM +0800, Xin LI wrote: > Hi folks, > > I have did a preliminary work on ISC-cron 4.1 for FreeBSD. I have noticed > that: > - Both FreeBSD and NetBSD have cron and friends based on cron 3.0 > with some respective local modifications. > - OpenBSD has adopted ISC cron 4.0b1 in early 2001. After that, > they have did several security and stablity related improvements > that IMO is valuable for us, too. > - There are some minor bugs in FreeBSD's cron that should be > fixed. (e.g. having */0 in crontab will cause a local DoS, > crontab does not remove temp files when it is abnormally > terminated, etc.) > > I have Google'd the mailing list and found no discussion explaining why > we have not upgraded our cron and friends. Is there any discussion I > have missed? In other words, should I make these work a port, or a diff > against src/, when I have finished the whole thing? About the only reason in favour of keeping cron 3.0 would be if there are compatibility issues. However this is still a weak reason since this is 5.x-CURRENT. I think upgrading cron in src sounds like a good idea. Kris
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