| From: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu> |
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| To: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com>, Postgres general mailing list <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Scheduler in Postgres |
| Date: | 2004-12-21 20:42:22 |
| Message-ID: | 87brcngz81.fsf@stark.xeocode.com |
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"Jim C. Nasby" <decibel(at)decibel(dot)org> writes:
> On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 12:07:21PM -0500, Greg Stark wrote:
> >
> > Csaba Nagy <nagy(at)ecircle-ag(dot)com> writes:
> >
> > > Now, cron isn't exactly part of the OS, is it ?
> >
> > Yes, it is.
>
> Depends on how you define 'OS'. Linux is nothing but a kernel afterall,
That just means Linux isn't an OS all by itself. A kernel isn't very usable
without, say, init, a shell, etc. A periodic job scheduler has traditionally
been in that list of base elements of the OS.
--
greg
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