Thread: How to schedule scripts (using alarmd?)
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2009-08-17 , 08:00
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#7
Originally Posted by jgombos View Post
According to GA ( http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=25686 ) cron was withheld from the distro because it's a battery killer.
A well-behaved crond may be slightly more wasteful than an alarm API, but hardly a battery killer. When it doesn't have scheduled work to do It should just wake up once a minute, stat(2) the crontab(s) and go back to sleep.