Hello, Yes, but you will be awoken even if you didn't poke cron via socket because of the timeout, and cron will check anyway for updates.
2014-05-14 6:54 GMT+02:00 Philip Guenther <[email protected]>: > 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 > > -- Pozdrawiam Tomasz WaÅaszek
