23 Dec
2015
23 Dec
'15
10:27 a.m.
Random832 scripsit:
It may be reasonable, in Wikipedia's role as a
"summary of the published
literature", to say something like "some people have suggested" that it
may be an acronym, and to list the sources there, but certainly _not_ to
assert that it was actually intended as one without a source actually
traceable to someone in a position to know.
Well, as of now it says:
The origin of the name cron is unclear;[2] it has been suggested
that it comes from the Greek word for time, χρόνος
chronos,[3] or that it is an acronym for "Command Run On
Notice"[4] or for "Commands Run Over Night".[2][discuss]
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