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diff --git a/doc/mcron.texi b/doc/mcron.texi index 27cd1b7..340faca 100644 --- a/doc/mcron.texi +++ b/doc/mcron.texi @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Detailed invoking Guile modules -* The core module:: The job list and execution loop. +* The base module:: The job list and execution loop. * The redirect module:: Sending output of jobs to a mail box. * The vixie-time module:: Parsing vixie-style time specifications. * The job-specifier module:: All commands for scheme configuration files. @@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ taken to be program code made up of the functions @code{(next-second . args)}, @code{(next-minute...)}, etc, where the optional arguments can be supplied with the @code{(range)} function above (these functions are analogous to the ones above except that they implicitly -assume the current time; it is supplied by the mcron core when the +assume the current time; it is supplied by the mcron base when the list is eval'd). @cindex time specification @@ -1150,26 +1150,26 @@ non-absolute time specified on the Gregorian calendar (the first day of next week, for example). Finally, it may be the wish of the user to provide a program with the functionality of mcron plus a bit extra. -The core module maintains mcron's internal job lists, and provides the +The base module maintains mcron's internal job lists, and provides the main wait-run-wait loop that is mcron's main function. It also introduces the facilities for accumulating a set of environment modifiers, which take effect when jobs run. @menu -* The core module:: The job list and execution loop. +* The base module:: The job list and execution loop. * The redirect module:: Sending output of jobs to a mail box. * The vixie-time module:: Parsing vixie-style time specifications. * The job-specifier module:: All commands for scheme configuration files. * The vixie-specification module:: Commands for reading vixie-style crontabs. @end menu -@node The core module, The redirect module, Guile modules, Guile modules -@section The core module +@node The base module, The redirect module, Guile modules, Guile modules +@section The base module @cindex guile module -@cindex core module -@cindex modules, core +@cindex base module +@cindex modules, base -This module may be used by including @code{(use-modules (mcron core))} +This module may be used by including @code{(use-modules (mcron base))} in a program. The main functions are @code{add-job} and @code{run-job-loop}, which allow a program to create a list of job specifications to run, and then to initiate the wait-run-wait loop @@ -1221,7 +1221,7 @@ becoming available for reading on one of the file descriptors in the fd-list, if supplied. Only in this case will the procedure return to the calling program, which may then make modifications to the job list before calling the @code{run-job-loop} procedure again to resume execution of -the mcron core. +the mcron base. @end deffn @deffn{Scheme procedure} remove-user-jobs user @@ -1242,7 +1242,7 @@ last job that was reported in the schedule report. The report itself is returned to the calling program as a string. @end deffn -@node The redirect module, The vixie-time module, The core module, Guile modules +@node The redirect module, The vixie-time module, The base module, Guile modules @section The redirect module @cindex redirect module @cindex modules, redirect @@ -1263,7 +1263,7 @@ vixie-time))}. This module provides a single method for converting a vixie-style time specification into a procedure which can be used as the -@code{next-time-function} to the core @code{add-job} procedure, or to +@code{next-time-function} to the base @code{add-job} procedure, or to the @code{job-specifier} @code{job} procedure. See @ref{Vixie Syntax} for full details of the allowed format for the time string. |