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diff --git a/usr.sbin/cron/doc/THANKS b/usr.sbin/cron/doc/THANKS new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3787c29 --- /dev/null +++ b/usr.sbin/cron/doc/THANKS @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +15 January 1990 +Paul Vixie + +Many people have contributed to cron. Many more than I can remember, in fact. +Rich Salz and Carl Gutekunst were each of enormous help to me in V1; Carl for +helping me understand UNIX well enough to write it, and Rich for helping me +get the features right. + +John Gilmore wrote me a wonderful review of V2, which took me a whole year to +answer even though it made me clean up some really awful things in the code. +(According to John the most awful things are still in here, of course.) + +Paul Close made a suggestion which led to /etc/crond.pid and the mutex locking +on it. Kevin Braunsdorf of Purdue made a suggestion that led to @reboot and +its brothers and sisters; he also sent some diffs that lead cron toward compil- +ability with System V, though without at(1) capabilities, this cron isn't going +to be that useful on System V. Bob Alverson fixed a silly bug in the line +number counting. Brian Reid made suggestions which led to the run queue and +the source-file labelling in installed crontabs. + +Scott Narveson ported V2 to a Sequent, and sent in the most useful single batch +of diffs I got from anybody. Changes attributable to Scott are: + -> sendmail won't time out if the command is slow to generate output + -> day-of-week names aren't off by one anymore + -> crontab says the right thing if you do something you shouldn't do + -> crontab(5) man page is longer and more informative + -> misc changes related to the side effects of fclose() + -> Sequent "universe" support added (may also help on Pyramids) + -> null pw_shell is dealt with now; default is /bin/sh |
