When using as per default

flock -w 180 9

in /etc/init.d/ntpsec
I was geeting 170 seconds delay before ntpsec completed

When using

flock -w 10 9

I was getting zero delay

When using

flock -w 20 9

I was getting 10 seconds delay


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