What is a QUEDEFS file (cron)?

guy at gorodish.UUCP guy at gorodish.UUCP
Fri Feb 6 21:10:23 AEST 1987


>First, a little something about the SysV cron.  
>This is an impressive piece of work!

Yeah, especially impressive bits of code like

	while ((n->isdummy) && (n!=NULL)) n = n->right;

Bletch.  Somebody ought to sneak in during the night and make the
"-z" flag the default in the linker, so that the
null-pointer-dereferencing bugs get caught *before* this stuff gets
shipped....

Also, I'd be curious to see how it stacks up against other batch
systems, like MDQS.

>Finally, the '#u' field prevents scheduling of events when the number
>of users on the system exceeds this number.

Umm, err, I don't see any code to implement that in the S5R3 "cron",
nor in the S5R2 "cron".  There's a #define for USRF, but it's not
used anywhere.



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