Re: Synchronising an app with the system clock

[Alex Jones <alex weej com>]

On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 16:58 -0500, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> On 2/15/07, Alex Jones <alex weej com> wrote:
> > Hi Andrew
> >
> > Thanks for your thoughts, very useful info.
> >
> > Back on the thought of a "system clock" D-Bus service, how does this
> > sound? (Sorry to reiterate some info.)
> >
> 
> Sounds really really bad. We didn't work hard to reduce wakeups only
> to introduce a dbus service that wakes up the world every second.

Would this be an issue if only the subscribed signals are sent to each
app? I.e., Clock would be woken up once a minute, my alarm service once
an hour, and if nothing else is requesting otherwise, the only thing
that's happening is the service waking itself up to check the time once
per second.

Or do I misunderstand the issues behind waking stuff up?
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Alex Jones
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