From 96974f106451712f8cbd9f53a7427b02725ee5cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Richard Hughes <richard@hughsie.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 22:41:33 +0000
Subject: add a note on shell

Add a note saying how to not abuse the plugin system.
---
 docs/faq.xml | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

(limited to 'docs')

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>
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