Re: Re: OT: flaws in vixie-cron? (Was: Design of yet another cron system)

Bruce Guenter <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.bgware
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 08:46:01AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> As long as it's three-clause BSD (i.e. no advertising clause), it can be
> incorporated in a GPL-licensed program without problem -- at least as far as I
> understand it.  It should be safe to use that as a base.

Good.

> > Oh, and using "%" for feeding data into the command's stdin doesn't work
> > neither.
> 
> Good thing, too.  That's always been a "WTF were they thinking?" bit for me.

Oh, I could see how it could be quite handy to be able to add feeding
data into stdin from a command.  As it can also be done using files,
though, it seems somewhat extraneous.
-- 
Bruce Guenter <[email protected]> http://em.ca/~bruceg/ http://untroubled.org/
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