[libvirt] [PATCH 3/6] virtlockd: treat SIGHUP like SIGUSR1

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Tue Dec 10 13:28:06 UTC 2013


On 12/10/2013 04:15 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 05:23:27PM +1100, Michael Chapman wrote:
>> SIGHUP is commonly used to instruct a daemon to reload its config. For
>> now we should handle it in virtlockd just like SIGUSR1, rather than
>> having it kill the process.
> 
> I don't think we should make SIGHUP do a re-exec - we should keep this
> signal available for the future when we may well want to support reload
> of the config without re-exec'ing at the same time.

Fair point; should we go ahead and revert this patch, since it got pushed?

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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