[Babel-users] SIGHUP shouldn't kill babeld

[Juliusz Chroboczek]

> It is a very old tradition in UNIX daemons to use the SIGHUP signal for
> exactly that reason: reload your config files and reopen your logs!
> 
> This seems to be what SIGUSR2 is doing to babel, and while I can adapt
> my configuration to do that, it seems more appropriate for Babel to
> follow usual standards.

There's a good reason for that.

A lot of people are running babeld from the terminal.  If babeld
doesn't quit at SIGHUP, they will be left with babeld processes
hanging around after they quit their session.

Having babeld quit at SIGHUP solves this problem quite nicely.

-- Juliusz