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authorMathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>2018-03-24 01:03:08 +0100
committerMathieu Lirzin <mthl@gnu.org>2018-03-24 01:18:21 +0100
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base: Rewrite 'find-next-jobs' docstring.
* src/mcron/base.scm (find-next-jobs): Don't explain the detail of implementation in the docstring.
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/src/mcron/base.scm b/src/mcron/base.scm
index 5cfc92c..8a3f5c3 100644
--- a/src/mcron/base.scm
+++ b/src/mcron/base.scm
@@ -115,21 +115,10 @@ SCHEDULE."
(cons entry (schedule-system schedule))))))
(define* (find-next-jobs #:key (schedule %global-schedule))
- "Procedure to locate the jobs in SCHEDULE with the lowest (soonest)
-next-times. These are the jobs for which we must schedule the mcron
-program (under any personality) to next wake up. The return value is a cons
-cell consisting of the next time (maintained in the next-time variable) and a
-list of the job entries that are to run at this time (maintained in the
-next-jobs-list variable).
-
-The procedure works by first obtaining the time of the first job on the list,
-and setting this job in the next-jobs-list. Then for each other entry on the
-job-list, either the job runs earlier than any other that have been scanned,
-in which case the next-time and next-jobs-list are re-initialized to
-accomodate, or the job runs at the same time as the next job, in which case
-the next-jobs-list is simply augmented with the new job, or else the job runs
-later than others noted in which case we ignore it for now and continue to
-recurse the list."
+ "Locate the jobs in SCHEDULE with the lowest (soonest) next-times. Return a
+list where the head is the next scheduled time and the rest are all the job
+entries that are to run at this time. When SCHEDULE is empty next time is
+'#f'."
(let loop ((jobs
(append (schedule-system schedule) (schedule-user schedule)))
(next-time (inf))