Date: Mon, 31 Dec 2001 07:37:20 -0700 (MST) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu Cc: joe.halpin@attbi.com, standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: at utility changes Message-ID: <20011231.073720.74125621.imp@village.org> In-Reply-To: <200112311430.fBVEUBp99435@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20011230130404.A78954@colnta.acns.ab.ca> <3C307398.5A83DEE4@attbi.com> <200112311430.fBVEUBp99435@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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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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