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Subject: Re: Cron
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Date: Thu, 27-Nov-86 11:43:51 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov 27 11:43:51 1986
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Reply-To: page@ulowell.UUCP (Bob Page)
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mwm@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Mike (Don't have strength to leave) Meyer) wrote:
>The shar file is in the mail. Just wanted to let everyone know that
>you can send mail to Bob asking where it is, instead of me :-).

Ok, ok, don't flood my mailbox already.  I got it.  It's got lotsa
UNIX hooks that the Amiga doesn't need (like usernames, etc) that
I'll just #ifdef out - and I need to hook in Amiga process spawning
and clock reading.

Anyway, I have a question for the net: how do you think I should set
the wakeup timer?  I'm currently working on a project that sits on
the VBLANK server chain and reads the mouse port, but I don't want
to do that for amiga cron -- seems like overkill.  Does timer.device
support SIGALARM (or whatever) [ don't have my RKM's handy at the
moment] - any examples of timer.device usage around?

Another question: should I provice non-compiler-specific support
for process handling?  Both Lattice and Manx have exec functions now
(Well, Lattice will in their next release) although they are not
compatible, and we all know the problems with Execute and CreateProc!
I guess I'll just program for both compilers (ouch - Lattice exec
doesn't know about BCPL program arg passing) with an #ifdef, again.

Lastly, I'm not going to get a chance to even LOOK at the code
until I get further along on two other projects that I'm working on
(alas, these are commercial ventures) - let's say a few weeks,
at the least.  I'll post a message when I get something up.

Amigas for the masses!
..Bob



-- 
Bob Page,  U of Lowell CS Dept.      ulowell!page,  page@ulowell.CSNET