>>>>> "pb" == Per Bothner <per@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> The cron daemon is going to wake up every minute and scan its
>> crontabs, even if no work needs doing? How else is it going to know?
pb>
pb> It can schedule itself to wake up the next time something is scheduled.
pb> And isn't it possible to have the kernel notify it on changes to files
pb> or directories it is monitoring. This may not have been possible in the
pb> old days of Unix, but doesn't Linux now have a notification capability?
Not all Unix systems have a file access monitor, so if cron is to have a
single implementation across Unices, then it won't be able to use fam.
--- Vladimir
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