Crons give me headaches

Nov 11, 2005, 2:36 AM

Ugg.

So, are there any numbers left that work as they should?

Nov 11, 2005, 3:38 AM

Well here are all the problematic situations I've found:
a) duration and post holdoff are both 0 (cron takes two days to terminate and executes OnEnd on both)
b) pre hold off is 0 and duration and post holdoff are both positive (cron never terminates and executes OnEnd every day for the rest of your life)
c) duration is 0 and pre holdoff and post holdoff are both positive (post holdoff ends up the same as pre holdoff)
d) all are positive (everything goes crazy)

So the only ones that work correctly would be x-y-0, 0-0-z, and also x-0-x (where pre=post), as long as they don't fall into a).

Is this all in accordance with everyone else's tests?

This post has been edited by Guy : 11 November 2005 - 01:05 AM

Nov 12, 2005, 10:43 PM

Hey Neb, you're on the beta team, right? It's probably a little late, but any chance you could report our findings?

Nov 13, 2005, 7:34 PM

They've already released the build of 109 that will probably be made public, but I'll bring it up. The biggest problem is that only us nerds care, the end users (and thus the bulk of the market) don't mind nearly enough.