crontab entry environment variables [PSARC/2007/503 FastTrack timeout 09/10/2007]

[Chris Gerhard]

Joseph Kowalski wrote:
> Darren J Moffat wrote:
>> I'm sponsoring this OpenSolaris case for Chris Gerhard. 
> Nit/Opinion...
>>     ALLOW_EXTENSIONS=YES
>>   
> How about a definition that is a little more explicit?  Maybe something
> like:
> 
>    ALLOW_ENV=YES
> 
> I can't say I love this, but "EXTENSIONS" seems rather broad.  I could
> envision there being several classes of extensions, and it might be 
> desirable to
> control them (as small classes) individually.
> 

My thinking was that this option allows cron to be extended beyond the 
standard as it is currently written. If further extensions were proposed 
then at that time it would be possible to have ALLOW_EXTENSIONS=YES be a 
big switch with individual variables as smaller switches if at the time 
that was considered important. So if ALLOW_EXTENSIONS is not YES you get 
a standard conforming cron no matter what other settings are.

--chris