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RE: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin? (Attn: cygrunsrv maintainer)


----Original Message----
>From: Igor Pechtchanski
>Sent: 16 August 2005 02:22

> On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:
>> Or must such services be stopped and restarted completely?
> 
> Yes, but you'll need to send SIGHUP to the program process, and not to the
> corresponding cygrunsrv process, since, IIRC, cygrunsrv itself will
> unconditionally terminate the child daemon on SIGHUP (and SIGTERM, and
> SIGQUIT, and SIGINT).
> 
> Corinna, perhaps cygrunsrv should pass explicit SIGHUPs to the child
> instead (unless --termsig is HUP)?  Or, better yet, pass the signal to
> send as an argument to terminate_child()?

  I think that if someone wants to send a signal to the child, they should
send it to the child, and if someone wants to send a signal to the parent,
they should send it to the parent, and I don't think cygrunsrv should try to
second guess them.

  And stop calling me Corinna!


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
Can't think of a witty .sigline today....


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