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From: jay@mips.COM (Jay McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mips
Subject: Re: duplicate cron jobs, who is responsible?
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Date: 29 May 90 16:37:28 GMT
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In article <LARRY.90May28215600@focsys.uucp> larry@focsys.uucp (Larry Williamson) writes:
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>Cron seems to be executing some jobs multiple times. Not always, and
>when a duplicate execution is taking place, they are always within 1
>second of each other. Interesting thing too, is that the first
>execution often appears to be 1 second early!
>
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This was (note the past tense) Problem Report 5077 (and other duplicates).  
It has been fixed for RISC/os 4.50.  The problem was a race condition in cron.

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Jay McCauley
MIPS Computer Systems, 928 E. Arques, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408)991-7711
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