Re: [dev] A replacement for at.

From: Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se>
Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:13:46 +0100

On Fri, 1 Jan 2016 10:19:01 +0100
Mattias Andrée <maandree_AT_kth.se> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I'm written an alternative to at, called sat (for simple
> at): https://github.com/maandree/sat sat is incompatible
> with at, but I have tried to make sure that a
> compatibility-layer can be written.
>
> sat is basically at without a lot of features that does
> not need to be there. sat is also written to waste very
> little memory when it is inactive — since it is almost
> always inactive — fork–exec:s, libexec:s to do things when
> something happens.
>
> satd is an unprivileged daemon that is user-private, and
> starts and exits automatically. The client programs (sat,
> satq, satr, satrm) communicates with satd using a domain
> socket. Unfortunately message queues (or bus:
> https://github.com/maandree/bus) was a not a good option
> because of unbounded message lengths.
>
> satd is able to update online, and is able to recover its
> job queue if its shuts down unexpectedly.
>
> I have released sat under the terms of the MIT License,
> in hope that it will be useful if you want to base your
> at-implement of it.
>
>
> Mattias Andrée
>

I am rewritting it so that it will only use signals
and flock for interprocess communication.


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