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Re: Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe
- From: "Blair Sutton" <blairuk at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 10:58:10 +0100
- Subject: Re: Re: Patch to allow Cron to use non-POSIX shells like Powershell.exe and CMD.exe
Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> writes:
> Why should we patch a cygwin utility to promote the use of a non-cygwin shell?
To increase/improve productivity. To move along with the times.
No one can argue that Powershell isn't a good shell taking some of the
best features of many popular shells before it.
> Sending text files as application/octet-stream makes them harder to read in
> email. Consider using a text MIME type instead.
> You should fix your mailer to not send duplicate copies of a message when
> writing to a text-only mailing list.
I just used GMails default. I'm not sure if I can do what you want.
> And what's wrong with doing this with what cron already provides:
> * * * * * /cygdrive/c/windows/system32/windowspowershell/v1.0/powershell -
> Command '"c:\documents and settings\blair sutton\my
> documents\windowspowershell\test\test.ps1" one two three'
This doesn't work. Have you tried? Also why not support any shell -
that's what Paul Vixie originally intended right?
> I'm not the cron maintainer, but I hope he doesn't bloat the code for this.
Four extra lines of code is bloat to you?
Perhaps you are being a little sensitive here don't you think?
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