[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Maemo Alarm/Notifier Interface

[From: Ralph Giles]

On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:33:41PM +0200, Kimmo Hämäläinen wrote:

> > You'd have to hack a lot around crontab to enable all this and I doubt
> > that would be significantly less error prone than implementing that
> > stuff e.g. in the Desktop application or a new demon specific to that
> > task.
> 
> What was so difficult with cron?

Perhaps cron should grow dbus support so applications can register jobs
without having to worry about locking the crontab file or run another
daemon?

 -r