the patch Matthew submitted, but I broke the lines in a more FreeBSD
way and made one small wording change.
PR: 31265
Submitted by: Matthew D. Fuller <fullermd@over-yonder.net>
MFC after: 3 weeks
program to read any file which is a valid crontab file.
The fix is based on that used in NetBSD and OpenBSD - we keep the
file open while the user is editing it. This means that files must
be edited in place. Cron attempts to warn you if your editor does
not do this. The fact that the file must be edited in place is also
noted in the man page.
This patch has been confirmed to work by atleast one person on
-security and has been tested locally.
Obtained from: OpenBSD
This will make a number of things easier in the future, as well as (finally!)
avoiding the Id-smashing problem which has plagued developers for so long.
Boy, I'm glad we're not using sup anymore. This update would have been
insane otherwise.
