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Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2007 13:33:20 -0400
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] cron and lib/profile
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This is left over from when localcron was a separate program.
Then it didn't even create a new name space.  It just ran as
the local user in the name space in which it started.

It would probably make sense to change cron to do:

		putenv("service", "rx");
		execl("/bin/rc", "rc", "-lc", buf, nil);

to be more like rexexec.  Perhaps $service should be
"cron", but "rx" seems okay.

Russ