On 2022-08-13 at 17:26:05, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Does FreeBSD offer choices of cron implementations other than Vixie, > just like some Linux distributions? If somebody on a non-FreeBSD > platform happens to choose to use Vixie, then they would presumably > have the same problem, so a compile-time switch, whose default is > hardcoded based on the target platform, would not work very well. > The default will be wrong for some users, and users can later choose > to switch between different cron implementations. I'm using Debian unstable, and I'm using Vixie cron. I believe that's the default implementation. However, I could also well use cronie, since that's available in Debian as well. So, yeah, I think this is a thing to consider. > Configuration knob can be used as a workaround, but in this case, I > am not sure if it is worth doing. What's the downside of securely > opening a temporary file and write whatever we are currently piping > to a spawned "crontab" command and then giving the path to that > temporary file to the "crontab" command? Wouldn't that give us the > maximal portability without that much code, no? I think we should try to provide an option which works across at least the versions on a particular OS. The temporary file seems like a nice, portable option, so I think we should just do that unless there's some practical objection. If Derrick doesn't get to it this next week, I can send a patch. -- brian m. carlson (he/him or they/them) Toronto, Ontario, CA
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