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Re: Crontab problems
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 13:00:20 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: Crontab problems
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Thu, 12 Sep 2002, Raphael wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 05:53:24PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > On Wed, 11 Sep 2002, Nicholas Wourms wrote:
> >
> > > --- Raphael <raphael@oninet.pt> wrote:
> > > > Hi guys/girls~,
> > > >
> > > > I'm having a bit of a problem with my windows based editor. Using
> > > > it with
> > > > Pine or Mutt is not problem. Using it with Crontab -e gives a
> > > > sharing
> > > > violation error when I want to save the new file.
> > > >
> > > > Is this a crontab problem?
> > >
> > > Use vi.exe
> >
> > Most windows editors adopt a remove-and-recreate (or rename-and-recreate)
> > policy. This basically means that they will try to remove or rename the
> > crontab-created file (which will fail, silently), and then create that
> > file over (which will fail since crontab has it open). This is where your
> > sharing violation comes from.
>
> Ok, I can understand that explenation.
>
> > I've verified this with notepad and
> > editpad, but I'm sure most of the others will behave similarly. Thus,
> > looks like using a cygwin-based editor is your only option, unless you can
> > find a windows one that writes the files in-place. If this creates one
> > more convert for the vi camp, all the better. ;-)
>
> Don't think so, why should Cron not be able to act like Pine or Mutt. I
> guess the latter start opening the file in shared mode?
I don't know about mutt, but pine, IIRC, does not keep the file open while
it's being edited by an external editor. It re-opens the file afterwards,
which is why it doesn't care whether it's the same file, or a newly
created one.
Igor
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