Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:23:59 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> To: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r241576 - in head/usr.sbin/cron: cron crontab lib Message-ID: <CAF6rxg=kkaNjgU=JKKqR%2Bh7-VXBC6GtvGDXm3c58%2B_UbtTvG9w@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAJ-VmomTAPAOGjdJ8UZyY=mfnhbMAexyr_Fz9DMNqiyzDV0_fQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <201210150821.q9F8Lobc047576@svn.freebsd.org> <CAJ-VmomRx_n6LoXeQCPAX-KzVYqPcjhZt1J0MX89FiEEojPePw@mail.gmail.com> <CAF6rxgn9DcwqnZW4uwS8OLmKMbs3Fg9x8o50KWzDunLS_H-tDA@mail.gmail.com> <CAJ-VmomTAPAOGjdJ8UZyY=mfnhbMAexyr_Fz9DMNqiyzDV0_fQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On 15 October 2012 19:26, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 15 October 2012 16:10, Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote: >> On 15 October 2012 18:45, Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> wrote: >>> Why not sleep for the amonut of time needed before the next event? >> >> If the crontab changes in the meantime. If the next event is in a week, >> but you modify the crontab, you don't want to sleep until next event. > > Right. So "check the crontab file" event is also an event with a > timestamp in the future. > > Maybe crontab should be using a command via a socket to reload, rather > than stat'ing files.. "Why we stat the file every quantum instead of using kqueue is a different question." -- Eitan Adler Source & Ports committer X11, Bugmeister, Ports Security teams
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