Hi, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:
> Looking at crontab(5) man page, cron allows you to execute a program > once in startup, so you could start some kind of daemon like that. that might be an option... as soon as we have cron which is currently not available. > You could have a shell script launched by cron that checks the current > time of day and, if the time is right, starts some program that plays > annoying alarm sound at full volume. Thats a hack, not a feature and leads exactly to the situation we want to avoid. > I guess the 'API' is crontab(1) + crontab(5). It has probably been > tested in the course of time and proven good and stable. ... for a completey different usecase: We are not talking about software for a PC. > I assume it will sleep most of the time and poll once in a minute > (according to man page). I suppose thats too frequent to avoid power drain, iirc we had a problem like this with the panel clock. Apart from this i think the resolution of one minute is too low... > I think the application developer will use the crontab(1) command and > the Glib API. I don't think the crontab command is an acceptable interface for GUI applications, we would need a library offering a proper API. > We will try to re-use existing (preferably standard) software, so unless > cron is not enough, it will be preferred over some new daemon > implemented from scratch. I think we are talking about two different things - the implementation of a service and a service API. Greetings Florian -- The dream of yesterday Florian Boor is the hope of today Tel: 0271-771091-14 and the reality of tomorrow. Fax: 0271-771091-19 [Robert Hutchings Goddard, 1904] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6C 44 30 4C 43 20 6B 61 16 07 0F AA E6 97 70 A8 _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
