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| author | Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> | 2007-01-18 22:41:33 +0000 |
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| committer | Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com> | 2007-01-18 22:41:33 +0000 |
| commit | 96974f106451712f8cbd9f53a7427b02725ee5cd (patch) | |
| tree | 710816bb49df59f4f9e896496381532507df5e84 /docs | |
| parent | c56e1b1721342779eeb830ab184be279372eb769 (diff) | |
add a note on shell
Add a note saying how to not abuse the plugin system.
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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/faq.xml | 14 |
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diff --git a/docs/faq.xml b/docs/faq.xml index 2081ae9..5b27118 100644 --- a/docs/faq.xml +++ b/docs/faq.xml @@ -121,4 +121,18 @@ </para> </sect1> + <sect1 id="faq-shellscripts"> + <title> + Can I execute shell scripts from OHM on an event? + </title> + <para> + Well you can, but you really don't want to. + Executing a shell takes a long time on an embedded system, and OHM + provides (deliberately) no methods to easily launch scripts. + A critical design feature of <literal>ohmd</literal> is that it is fast + and lightweight, with policy written in compiled modules, and so writing + stuff in shell is very discouraged. + </para> + </sect1> + </chapter> |