On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 10:19:01 +0100 Mattias Andrée <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi! > > I'm written an alternative to at, called sat (for simple > at): https://github.com/maandree/sat sat is incompatible > with at, but I have tried to make sure that a > compatibility-layer can be written. > > sat is basically at without a lot of features that does > not need to be there. sat is also written to waste very > little memory when it is inactive — since it is almost > always inactive — fork–exec:s, libexec:s to do things when > something happens. > > satd is an unprivileged daemon that is user-private, and > starts and exits automatically. The client programs (sat, > satq, satr, satrm) communicates with satd using a domain > socket. Unfortunately message queues (or bus: > https://github.com/maandree/bus) was a not a good option > because of unbounded message lengths. > > satd is able to update online, and is able to recover its > job queue if its shuts down unexpectedly. > > I have released sat under the terms of the MIT License, > in hope that it will be useful if you want to base your > at-implement of it. > > > Mattias Andrée > I am rewritting it so that it will only use signals and flock for interprocess communication.
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