Lennart Poettering píše v Pá 26. 11. 2010 v 01:27 +0100: > And also, cron does a couple of really nasty things. For example it > wakes up in regular intervals to check if a job is ready to run. It does > so to deal with wallclock time changes/suspends. In systemd we are > working on a different way to solve this, so that we can actually sleep > as long as possible, and don't have to wake up in regular > intervals. Also, this means we can have much more accurate time > specifications, and we don't have to pay a price for it, due to > this. This different design will even allow us to do amazing stuff that > hasn't existed so far, for example, mark cron jobs so that they wake up > the machine from suspend, and similar. > > To summarize this: the current logic of cron is not pretty. And it > duplicates process spawning and babysitting which already exists in way > too many daemons, and is actually the more interesting code. systemd > unifies all that code, and the end result will be simpler, more powerful > and less code, since we reuse what already exists anyway. The only thing > we basically add to systemd is a parser for calendar events, and > everything else already exists. > > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
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