On 15 October 2012 16:10, Eitan Adler <ead...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On 15 October 2012 18:45, Adrian Chadd <adr...@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.. Adrian > Why we stat the file every quantum instead of using something kqueue is > a different question. > > > -- > Eitan Adler > Source & Ports committer > X11, Bugmeister, Ports Security teams _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
