svn commit: r241576 - in head/usr.sbin/cron: cron crontab lib

[Adrian Chadd]

On 15 October 2012 16:10, Eitan Adler <eadler at freebsd.org> wrote:
> On 15 October 2012 18:45, Adrian Chadd <adrian at 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.
>
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