anti-dog-piling and ntpd leap files

[Alan Somers]

On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:31 AM, RW via freebsd-hackers
<freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 22 May 2017 07:04:27 -0600
> Alan Somers wrote:
>
>
>> >>> Just wondering - how is the new ntpd leapfile fetching supposed to
>> >>> work. I spot a dead normal entry:
>
>>
>> BTW, in 11.1 the sleeps will all be < 1 hour and they won't be
>> backgrounded anymore.
>
> That doesn't sound like a good idea. If they aren't backgrounded
> they'll block the rest of periodic daily for up to an hour. Not much of
> a problem on a server, but it would be when periodic is run from anacron
> at boot time.

Actually, there are already many periodic scripts from ports that
include foreground sleeps, mostly notably 410.pkg-audit.  Do those
cause problems for anacron?  I wouldn't think so, because anacron
knows to restart a job that didn't complete the last time it was run.