<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Peter J. Holzer <<a href="mailto:hjp@hjp.at">hjp@hjp.at</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On 2008-06-15 02:29:48 -0700, ian douglas wrote:<br>
> Suppose I could check the project page, but it's 2:30am and I'm tired<br>
> and lazy. I was updating and installing some software on my Freerunner<br>
> tonight to test mp3 playback and noticed again that there's still no<br>
> mention of a cron engine in the opkg library.<br>
><br>
> Anybody know if it's being worked on? I think that'd be an especially<br>
> handy tool to have. I'd go so far as to call it 'essential', at least in<br>
> my circumstance.<br>
<br>
</div>I think a straight port of cron would be simple but not very useful.<br>
Cron is really designed for computers which run 24/7.<br>
<br>
A cron-like tool for a phone (or any other device which is suspended<br>
most of the time) at least needs the ability to wake up the device in<br>
time for a scheduled job to run and go back to suspend mode after it has<br>
finished. But many jobs usually don't need to run at a fixed time. They<br>
can just run the next time the device is woken up by the user. Or the<br>
next time the device has AC power.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Maybe straight port of anacron will do?<br></div></div>