Re: crontab changes for PR bin/22612; please comment

Jens Schweikhardt <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.audit
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 04:08:04PM -0500, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
# At 1:09 PM +0100 3/18/02, Jens Schweikhardt wrote:
# >hello, world\n
# >
# >please comment on this patch (slightly different from the
# >one in the PR
# >http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/22612)
# >
# >Currently, checking for modification of the tmp file just
# >looks at the mtime and gives a false "no modification" if
# >the edit took less than 1 second. This is solved by simply
# >comparing the whole struct stat.
...
# Stupid brain-dead alternative fix:
#    Create the file.  stat the file.  sleep a second.
#    *Then* open the file in the user's editor.  Any
#    change that they make will have to have been done
#    more than a second later.

Hmm. What about completely removing the test whether the tmp file was
modified? Just try to install the crontab, no matter what. Or is there a
reason why crontab files must not be installed if they havn't changed?

Regards,

	Jens
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