crontab entry environment variables [PSARC/2007/503 FastTrack timeo

[Bill Sommerfeld]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 14:17 -0700, Don Cragun wrote:
> OK.  Now we're back to a standards conformance problem.
> 
> If you want to inflict unrequested changes in behavior on strictly
> conforming POSIX applications that use crontab -e to add crontab
> entries to the end of a crontab file; then you need a knob that enables
> this extension only on individual crontab files at the request of the
> owner of that crontab file.

Why can't that compliance knob be "don't include lines which are syntax
errors under the POSIX spec"?

						- Bill