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From: mcvax!melkart!tih@uunet.uu.net
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Cron question.
Message-ID: <7116@louie.udel.EDU>
Date: 24 Jan 89 06:27:14 GMT
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I've been wondering:  Is there a good reason why cron does a fork and exit,
other than to permit it to be started as "cron", and not "cron &"?  The way
it's done now, the initial invocation of cron, which dies after the fork,
leaves a hole in memory.  This seems to me like a bad idea in a system where
our 640 kilobytes need to be conserved as much as possible...

-tih



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