documentation "lite"

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Wednesday 07 July 2010 14:30, beebee at piments.com wrote:
> On 07/07/10 13:21, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> > bbox cron does not check every crontab every minute.
> >>>  Only every hour.
> 
> That would be sufficient for this one aspect. It should be somewhere. If 
> I missed it please tell me where I should be looking.

So far we don't have any extended documentation apart from help texts.
We assume that we try to mimic standard behavior and user will be able
to find the doc for standard tool on the Internet etc.

> My point was more general: that perhaps the current documentation is too 
> brief in some areas. You would know better than me what features 
> (especially where behaviour varies from the standard unix tools) are / 
> are not documented.

I propose fixing crond to detect the changes faster instead of explaining
its deficiencies. Checking mtime every minute would be good enough...
> 
> As for where it should be , what is the canonical point of reference for 
> busybox documentation?  -
> 
> http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
> 
> Is this not the best place to refer to?

This file is generated from help texts for every applet,
it is not edited by hand.
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vda