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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Dec 10 11:15:07 UTC 2013


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.

Daniel
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