-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 10/15/12 17:23, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 15 October 2012 19:26, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: >> 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.. > > "Why we stat the file every quantum instead of using kqueue is a > different question."
Because it's not guaranteed to work on every filesystems? But yes I think it would be a good idea to implement it and use it when all filesystems used to store crontabs supports it. Cheers, - -- Xin LI <delp...@delphij.net> https://www.delphij.net/ FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! Live free or die -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJQfLNHAAoJEG80Jeu8UPuz9bgH/ROQ6e0aAvEQMpRWMNVUYrKq efrqozcXHQU+eK7ceU5f3tX4PSPlMQ3pXGzt02n7sbsblFAnLZPCnJVfesaDBTav Cy9fnfU6dfwCGm7acwVYSAR+s6Wt1nOiKEn/ZNB1QUuvH+XbvdtZ4nAbEjeJzA45 ZBEdj/Dpj2Om3gTBbnmYVMpXeild0OPIFjupfWv0MZvAB2Dp8rOr6qJZXToBH+CZ XHN0ldR6djKVSLWVobY+rqII76pAhhMmgeEeHps8jUPShOtO0jGTqqMf/gk91gb/ cvXGbjqXSU/jBkNJExyCafkyWlocNiGSvYNvnaIT2Xts49WShD0DuScUgr8I+qQ= =1ZYE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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"
