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Date:      Thu, 3 Feb 2005 11:18:13 +0000
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@qubesoft.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Subject:   Re: cynchronised sleep capbilty..
Message-ID:  <f26cd3da3a99b4a3290586c15b758adb@qubesoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050203021603.L583@localhost>
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On 3 Feb 2005, at 10:17, Julian Elischer wrote:

> On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Doug Rabson wrote:
>
>> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 17:44, Julian Elischer wrote:
>>> very clever!
>>>
>>> however it doesn't phaselock to teh time and still drifts.
>>> I need to trigger on (for example) 10 second boundaries across 50
>>> synchronised machines..
>>> (so thatthe machines agree about the sampling period.)
>>
>> How about a cron job which writes characters into a fifo every ten
>> secconds. The script can wait for the next ten second mark by reading 
>> a
>> single char from the other end of the fifo.
>
> how does a cron job run evey 10 seconds?
> also this woudl seem something that is a bit beyond
> a simple shell script in terms of trouble you would go to.

A very good point - I forgot that cron only goes down to minute 
resolution :-)
>



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