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

Wed Jan 11 19:51:26 EET 2006

On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 19:40, ext Ralph Giles wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 11, 2006 at 07:33:41PM +0200, Kimmo HÃ¤mÃ¤lÃ¤inen 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?

Or maybe we have that function in Libosso that allows setting and
unsetting a crontab... That could also implement the locking.

BR; Kimmo

> 
>  -r
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