From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Craven Subject: =?UTF-8?B?UmU6IEFkZGluZyByb3R0bG9nIHNlcnZpY2UgaW4g4oCYJWJhc2Utc2VydmljZXPigJk/?= Date: Sat, 22 Oct 2016 07:52:58 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87wphcpsfu.fsf@gnu.org> <87k2dc3arp.fsf@we.make.ritual.n0.is> <87pomw7541.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54722) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxpEs-0003GG-Sx for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 01:53:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxpEp-00030b-S0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 01:53:02 -0400 Received: from mail-qk0-x22e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:400d:c09::22e]:35371) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bxpEp-00030N-Nh for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 22 Oct 2016 01:52:59 -0400 Received: by mail-qk0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id z190so179139881qkc.2 for ; Fri, 21 Oct 2016 22:52:59 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87pomw7541.fsf@gnu.org> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: guix-devel > Not sure I understand the problem. =E2=80=98mcron-jobs=E2=80=99 wouldn= =E2=80=99t collide with > anything else AFAICS, and it would be clearer than just =E2=80=98jobs=E2= =80=99 no? What I mean is that mcron-jobs assumes that the mcron-service is used. Calling it something general like jobs or cron-jobs wouldn't require renaming, if someone wants to use a different cron implementation. For example in an embedded system someone might prefer to use the busybox/toybox cron implementation. I'm not sure what other job time scheduling solutions exist. But a job is something that needs to run at specific times and has a bounded run time. I don't know how cron specific this feature is, or if the name of the job scheduler it's relevant as part of an operating-system declaration.