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To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu
Cc: joe.halpin@attbi.com, standards@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: at utility changes
From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
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In message: <200112311430.fBVEUBp99435@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
            Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> writes:
: <<On Mon, 31 Dec 2001 08:18:00 -0600, Joe Halpin <joe.halpin@attbi.com> said:
: 
: > "XSI Users shall be permitted to use at if their name appears in the
: > file /usr/lib/cron/at.allow.
: 
: I think this falls under our historical precedent, ``when the standard
: is wrong, ignore it''.  This is clearly out-of-scope for POSIX, and
: snuck in with the SUS unification.  We're unlikely to get UNIX
: branding for a whole bunch of reasons, so implementing this
: particularly broken pathname seems like a bad move.
: 
: If you feel like, you can add it as a compile-time option....

Would a symbolic link be desirable and compliant?

Warner

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