crontab entry environment variables [PSARC/2007/503 FastTracktimeout09/10/2007]

2007-09-12 Thread Roland Mainz
Chris Gerhard wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Chris Gerhard wrote: > >> Roland Mainz wrote: > >>> Darren J Moffat wrote: [snip] > > Two issues: > > 1. You basically assign a double-functionality to the variables - they > > affect both cron internal behaviour and they are exported into the > > envi

crontab entry environment variables [PSARC/2007/503 FastTracktimeout09/10/2007]

2007-09-12 Thread Roland Mainz
Chris Gerhard wrote: > Roland Mainz wrote: > > Darren J Moffat wrote: [snip] > > 2. I have great concerns about the abuse of the global environment > > variable namespace - sooner or later this will backfire _badly_ if cron > > and other applications have slightly different ways to interpret the >

crontab entry environment variables [PSARC/2007/503 FastTracktimeout09/10/2007]

2007-09-12 Thread Chris Gerhard
Roland Mainz wrote: > Chris Gerhard wrote: >> Roland Mainz wrote: >>> Darren J Moffat wrote: > [snip] >>> 2. I have great concerns about the abuse of the global environment >>> variable namespace - sooner or later this will backfire _badly_ if cron >>> and other applications have slightly different