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On 10/15/2012 4:26 PM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> Maybe crontab should be using a command via a socket to reload, rather
> than stat'ing files..

Simple signal would do.

kqueuing the file is not as easy, but this would complicate logic as you 
would need to look at renames, removes etc. I really doubt that it can 
catch things like renaming the whole directory at the upper level and 
replacing it with something else.

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