devblog/day 30 cronnergit-annexhttp://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_30__cronner/git-annexikiwiki2013-11-27T22:47:37Zcomment 1http://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_30__cronner/comment_1_53dfd9310e92f5225db52a13e20a46d4/Mantas2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-10-09T06:04:15Z
<p>The SysV Unix <em>cron</em> learned this same thing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Multi-user_capability">in 1979</a>.</p>
comment 2http://git-annex.branchable.com/devblog/day_30__cronner/comment_2_f98357c6f7a6da23873ac27c2e1e9638/joeyh.name2013-11-27T22:47:37Z2013-10-11T17:07:24Z
<p>However, if you strace a traditional cron, you will be sad at how it's implemented. So much statting of files, and checking of entries every second..</p>
<p>0 polling or redundant calulcation in my code!</p>