Re: [PATCH v3 4/4] maintenance: optionally use systemd timers on Linux

> On 5/21/2021 5:59 AM, Bagas Sanjaya wrote:
> > On 21/05/21 05.13, Lénaïc Huard wrote:
> >> The existing mechanism for scheduling background maintenance is done
> >> through cron. On Linux systems managed by systemd, systemd provides an
> >> alternative to schedule recurring tasks: systemd timers.
> >>
> >> The main motivations to implement systemd timers in addition to cron
> >> are:
> >> * cron is optional and Linux systems running systemd might not have it
> >>    installed.
> >> * The execution of `crontab -l` can tell us if cron is installed but not
> >>    if the daemon is actually running.
> >> * With systemd, each service is run in its own cgroup and its logs are
> >>    tagged by the service inside journald. With cron, all scheduled tasks
> >>    are running in the cron daemon cgroup and all the logs of the
> >>    user-scheduled tasks are pretended to belong to the system cron
> >>    service.
> >>    Concretely, a user that doesn’t have access to the system logs won’t
> >>    have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by cron whereas he
> >>    will have access to the log of its own tasks scheduled by systemd
> >>    timer.
> >
> > For gender neutrality, we can use he/she instead.
>
> Singular "they" is better. Fully accurate and less awkward.