On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 10:34 PM, Tomek WaÅaszek <[email protected]>wrote: > > I'm trying to understand the reason of using unix socket to poke cron > daemon via crontab. If we would remove this feature from the cron then > the functionality > will be the same, I mean the cron would update the database because > modification time of the SPOOL DIR will be different. Cron will also get > the new data even when we delete the /var/cron/tabs/.sock. > > This maybe is a silly question but I dont quite get the idea of having unix > socket in cron for reload. >
Why poll when you get woken only when needed instead? Philip Guenther
