[Shr-User] [SHR-T] ffalarms

Łukasz Pankowski lukpank at o2.pl
Mon Sep 20 14:50:17 CEST 2010


Jeffrey Ratcliffe <jeffrey.ratcliffe at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi Łukasz,
>
> 2010/9/20 Łukasz Pankowski <lukpank at o2.pl>:
>> I, as the author of ffalarms see it too :), but as no one complains I
>> can live with it.  The problem is that at the moment if you set multiple
>
> Well, it *is* rather annoying.
>
>> alarms at the same time they all schedule new alarms and due to race
>> condition between them you end up with single alarm scheduled multiple
>> times.  The simultaneous alarm processes try to own a dbus name, so only
>
> Are you saying that if I want to schedule new alarms, at say, 6.00,
> 6.05, and 6.10, then I should create 6.00, quit and restart ffalarms,
> create 6.05, etc..?

No, only if you set two alarms at 6.00 they both start at 6.00 and my
schedule the next alarms two times.

>
>> List of alarms:
>>
>> ffalarms -l
>>
>> (see http://ffalarms.projects.openmoko.org/#command-line-options)
>>
>> or simply
>>
>> ls /var/spoolt/at
>
> Right. That shows lots of duplicates scheduled, although the 3 alarms
> I would like are correctly defined. To fix things, should I just
> delete the duplicate scripts in /var/spool/at? or is there a better
> way?
>
> Regards
>
> Jeff



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