On Monday, November 10, 2014 7:36:19 am Lev Serebryakov wrote: > > After changing timezones in Russia (with replacing /etc/localtime > with new file), I found that cron works in "old" timezone till > restart. And all other services do the same, but cron is most obvious > here :) > > Looks like libc reads timezone only once and it could not be chamged > for process without restart (which leads to, effectivly, restart of > whole server). > > Is it known problem? I think, it should be fixed somehow. I > understand, that re-check timezone file on each time-related call > could be expensive, though :(
In practice, timezone changes are very rare, so rechecking the file is quite expensive to do. I think having to restart processes is fine for this. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
