[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: cygwin-1.3.12-1

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 10:19:08PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Thu, Jul 04, 2002 at 04:09:03PM -0400, Chris Faylor wrote:
>> It might be more interesting to run strace on cron itself (if that's
>> even possible) and then inspect the results.
>
>I did so.  It took a while to understand but it's actually a bug
>in the Cygwin version of cron.  I wondered why the same effect
>doesn't happen on Linux but the big difference between the official
>source and the Cygwin source of cron is the initialization of the
>environment.  I'll fix that and release a new version soon.

Wow, that's good news!  I was at a loss to understand how HOME could
be initialized incorrectly.  I actually installed cron to test this
myself.

Thanks for tracking this down.

cgf

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