On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Peter J. Holzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 2008-06-15 02:29:48 -0700, ian douglas wrote: > > Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm tired > > and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my Freerunner > > tonight to test mp3 playback and noticed again that there's still no > > mention of a cron engine in the opkg library. > > > > Anybody know if it's being worked on? I think that'd be an especially > > handy tool to have. I'd go so far as to call it 'essential', at least in > > my circumstance. > > I think a straight port of cron would be simple but not very useful. > Cron is really designed for computers which run 24/7. > > A cron-like tool for a phone (or any other device which is suspended > most of the time) at least needs the ability to wake up the device in > time for a scheduled job to run and go back to suspend mode after it has > finished. But many jobs usually don't need to run at a fixed time. They > can just run the next time the device is woken up by the user. Or the > next time the device has AC power. > Maybe straight port of anacron will do?
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