From: Felix Lechner via "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." <guix-devel@gnu.org>
To: Adam Faiz <adam.faiz@disroot.org>, ludo@gnu.org
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Shepherd timers
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 21:07:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <871q7r2gdg.fsf@lease-up.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <93EEFB57-F2BC-4317-B548-842BB4256305@disroot.org>
Hi Adam,
On Sun, Mar 31 2024, Adam Faiz wrote:
> Could the Shepherd depend on mcron for the timer functionality? Since
> mcron already handles scheduling commands to run at a certain time,
> there would be no need to reimplement it again.
I don't wish to speak for the Mcron maintainer Dave, who reads this
list, or for Ludo', to whom your message was addressed, but the
Shepherd's scheduler [1] strikes me as potentially superior as it may
avoid this calendaring issue in Mcron. [2]
Kind regards
Felix
[1] https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/shepherd.git/tree/modules/shepherd/service/timer.scm?h=devel#n149
[2] https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-mcron/2023-12/msg00000.html
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-03-31 4:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-03-31 3:15 Shepherd timers Adam Faiz
2024-03-31 4:07 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution. [this message]
2024-03-31 4:09 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
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2024-03-24 21:20 Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-25 9:14 ` raingloom
2024-03-28 22:22 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-03-25 22:47 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-03-28 22:32 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-02 14:23 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-10 14:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-14 19:47 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-19 14:35 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-21 21:28 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-05-01 21:58 ` Ludovic Courtès
2024-04-03 1:08 ` Felix Lechner via Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution.
2024-04-10 14:44 ` Ludovic Courtès
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