Re: crontab changes for PR bin/22612; please comment
"Crist J. Clark" <[email protected]>
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On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 11:16:15AM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote: > At 9:04 PM +0100 3/20/02, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > >As Garance A Drosihn wrote: > > > >> You type :q! > >> and you then see the message "installing new crontab". > >> You then think -- "Oh no! What just happened?!?" > > > >In which case it would reinstall the old crontab only > >anyway :), but I agree, it would startle me, too. > > > >How about md5-checking the files? > > Well, if it were me I would probably go with the lazy > fix and add the 1-second sleep. However, it probably > would be even "nicer to the user" to do an md5-check. You can borrow the MD5-check code from src/usr.bin/chpass/edit.c. -- Crist J. Clark | [email protected] | [email protected] http://people.freebsd.org/~cjc/ | [email protected] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [email protected] with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message