Re: crontab(1) using stdin

[Mouse <mouse%Rodents-Montreal.ORG@localhost>]

> It appears to me that NetBSD's crontab(5) uses the pseudo-filename
> "-" for installing a crontab from stdin, while SUS defines taht
> crontab reads from stdin if no filename is specified.

crontab(5)?  I'll assume that should be crontab(1).

Those are not inconsistent, unless SUS specifies other behaviour for
the case of a bare -, or NetBSD's version doesn't read from stdin when
no (pseudo-)filename is given.

Personally, I think reading from stdin in the case of no filename is a
rather nasty UI design botch, as that makes it significantly easier to
accidentally destroy your crontab.

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