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Reggie 2005-10-03 15:03

Does the OS support multitasking?
 
I was wondering what kind of multitasking does the OS support (preemptive, cooperative, or no support)? Can two or more programs run at the same time? Can it run a cron job at the background, while say watching a video or surfing the web?

Thanks.

Mike Cane 2005-10-03 17:25

I have no idea what a cron job is. Sounds obscene and icky.

Reggie 2005-10-03 17:30

LOL. Cron:
http://www.unixgeeks.org/security/ne...ix/cron-1.html

FoulPlay 2005-10-03 21:49

Yes, the deivce fully supports multi-tasking. I've tested it's multi-tasking abilities a number of times running up to 10 applications at once.

As far a Cron goes, the mailbox auto-retrieval feature is a version of Cron I suppose. :confused:

philmcneal 2005-11-05 05:35

you know cron is good ;)

fermunky 2005-11-05 18:15

I was hoping Cron was Tron 2! Not sure what use an actual cron job could give ya on the 770...?? All I know is my web server allows cron jobs, which I guess batches server jobs.

andymulhearn 2005-11-05 18:32

Cron is just scheduled tasks. Alarms perhaps...

putkowski 2005-11-16 21:53

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mike Cane
I have no idea what a cron job is. Sounds obscene and icky.

cron is a daemon (service if you're from Redmond) that runs jobs at particular dates/times. think of it as the windows scheduler.

the "output" of a cron job is put in the email folder of the user account that runs the job.

Wooky 2006-01-01 00:45

Quote:

Originally Posted by putkowski
cron is a daemon (service if you're from Redmond) that runs jobs at particular dates/times. think of it as the windows scheduler.

the "output" of a cron job is put in the email folder of the user account that runs the job.

Pardon, I resent that "service if you're from Redmond". :( In my Mandriva box (and most RH derived distros, AFAIK) you can type
#service crond start|stop
for example, so calling it a service is not Redmon-centric. I would personally define a daemon as a manager of service(s); so that the crond daemon manages the cron service; the xinetd daemon may manage a lot of services, and so on. A bit OT, I guess, sorry. :rolleyes:

putkowski 2006-01-17 22:38

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wooky
Pardon, I resent that "service if you're from Redmond". :( In my Mandriva box (and most RH derived distros, AFAIK) you can type
#service crond start|stop
for example, so calling it a service is not Redmon-centric. I would personally define a daemon as a manager of service(s); so that the crond daemon manages the cron service; the xinetd daemon may manage a lot of services, and so on. A bit OT, I guess, sorry. :rolleyes:

Actually, they're services in linux as well as given in redhatgo:

service <service name> [start][stop][restart]

You are not in the audience I addressed.

sorry.


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