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RE: Crontab on Win9X works
- From: David Byron <DByron at everdreamcorp dot com>
- To: "'cygwin at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 11:01:29 -0700
- Subject: RE: Crontab on Win9X works
Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> According to RFC 2822, a newline followed by whitespace is
> going to be "unfolded" (so the newline is not "semantically
> visible" in the header field). The RFC also allows unfolding
> lines consisting entirely of whitespace (but not blank lines!).
>
> It seems to me that cron does not accomodate environment
> values with whitespace in them at all. A solution would be
> to have cron insert a " " (space) after every newline in the
> variable value, which will render newlines harmless. Does this
> make sense?
Yes. It does alter the values of the environment variables with CRLF in
them, but that seems a lot better than what's happening now. I can't find
something in the RFC that will allow CRLF to be retained as part of a header
field body.
-DB
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