http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/ 2012-05-19T18:12:44-05:00 http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/ http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-13T16:55:19-05:00 http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/documentation/compcache?rev=1279058119&do=diff Background Compcache is essentially a kernel module that provides a method by which swap space can be placed in the RAM of a system. Generally, swap space is space on a hard drive that the kernel of a system uses as a sort of “backup memory” when the system RAM begins to run out. On embedded systems, this is not generally desired, as it would cause a large number of writes to the device and shorten its lifespan. Compcache solves this problem. text/html 2010-06-16T16:09:22-05:00 http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/documentation/scriptybox?rev=1276722562&do=diff Background So what is scriptybox? (besides a tool with an hilariously awesome name?) Well, scriptybox is my attempt at combining all of the functionality provided by most of the scripts included with today's ROMs into one simple, easily relocatable location. However, I didn't want to force users to type “scriptybox [blah]” whenever they wanted to run a command, so I took the approach of busybox, and made scriptybox run differently depending of the name of the symbolic link that was linking … text/html 2010-07-09T17:20:57-05:00 http://sapphire.ccroms.net/wiki/documentation/vixie-cron?rev=1278714057&do=diff Background For anyone who doesn't know, CRON is a low-level task scheduler that runs in the background, and running tasks provided in a configuration file known as a CRONTAB. Vixie-CRON is a tiny, yet extremely efficient CRON daemon written “back in the day” (1987) by Paul Vixie. It is essentially THE de-facto CRON and therefore was chosen to be ported by me to android.