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Date:      Mon, 22 May 2017 14:31:02 +0100
From:      RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: anti-dog-piling and ntpd leap files
Message-ID:  <20170522143102.70035d8d@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Mon, 22 May 2017 07:04:27 -0600
Alan Somers wrote:

  
> >>> Just wondering - how is the new ntpd leapfile fetching supposed to
> >>> work. I spot a dead normal entry:  

> 
> BTW, in 11.1 the sleeps will all be < 1 hour and they won't be
> backgrounded anymore.

That doesn't sound like a good idea. If they aren't backgrounded
they'll block the rest of periodic daily for up to an hour. Not much of
a problem on a server, but it would be when periodic is run from anacron
at boot time.



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