On 3/22/21 6:00 PM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Tom Horsley writes:
On Mon, 22 Mar 2021 18:07:12 -0400 Sam Varshavchik wrote:
It seems to be trying to derive epoch time for the next start time, something along those lines.
More obviously it seems to be systemd re-implementing cron from scratch instead of just using the already working after decades of use cron itself.
Yup. This is an obvious vendor lock-in play. Replace widely-known technologies with new, arcane stuff whose full documentation is kept internal, and is leveraged as a value-added product.
We all understand by now that you really don't like systemd, but please keep your conspiracy theories to yourself. They don't even make sense. Who's the vendor? It's fully open-source software, where's the lock-in? Sometimes things do need to be re-implemented, there's nothing wrong with that. The documentation is reasonably good and I'm pretty sure there's no secret documentation stash somewhere. So enough with the systemd hate on the mailing list. Take it to facebook or reddit or even better, keep it to yourself.