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RE: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin? (Attn: cygrunsrv maintainer)
- From: "Dave Korn" <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- To: <cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2005 13:16:28 +0100
- Subject: 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
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