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[joerg at openmoko.org]

Am Mi  7. Mai 2008 schrieb David Samblas Martinez:
> And why not implement a "execute command" option in
> the PIM Task Manager(Schedule)? 
> If the neo will be able to wake up to play a sound
> and/or buzz, I suppose it can execute a shell command
> and sleep again when finished.

The interesting bit of this is to distinguish between dates that just had wake 
up the device, so we may go to sleep again immediately after "execution", and 
dates that happen to be "executed" while user intentionally switched on the 
device already so we mustn't go to sleep afterwards.

/j



> (maybe this was already implemented/planned, isn't
> it?)  
> --- Ryan Prior <ryanprior at gmail.com> escribió:
> 
> > Perhaps "phone-cron" needs to be written, to take
> > anacron to the level of
> > task flexibility required for modern cell phones.
> > Cron and anacron are
> > crusty old beasts - we need something fresh and
> > sharp.
> > 
> > On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:42 PM, Bastian Muck
> > <bastian.muck at gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
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> > > Anachron can unfortunately run tasks once a day,
> > which you can read at the
> > > Drawback. I guess that tasks, with a
> > "remember-funktions" canot really be
> > > realized with anachron.
> > > I don't know if there is a timer, which can send
> > an wakeup-interupt, but
> > > when it exists the next upcoming task could be
> > searched an the time could be
> > > passed to the timer. Does anybody knows of such
> > timer?
> > > If not i think it should be integrated in gta03.
> > >
> > > Greetings Bastian
> > >
> > > Torfinn Ingolfsen schrieb:
> > > | Hi,
> > > |
> > > | On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Mike Baroukh
> > <mike at baroukh.com> wrote:
> > > |>  About this, I was wondering if there was
> > possibility to have cron like
> > > |>  tasks even if the phone is suspended ?
> > > |
> > > | You could always run something like anacron{1]
> > on the phone. As long
> > > | as yoy don't keep you phone suspended for a day
> > or more that would
> > > | work. :-)
> > > |
> > > | References:
> > > | 1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacron
> > >
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