[Babel-users] SIGHUP shouldn't kill babeld

Gabriel Kerneis gabriel at kerneis.info
Sat Sep 28 08:07:49 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 11:21:54PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> The problem, Shawn, is that logging-out sends SIGHUP to the process
> group or session that is being shut down.  If SIGHUP doesn't cause
> Polipo to quit, then a Polipo running in a terminal will not be shut
> down when you log out.
> 
> I fully agree with Gabriel -- having Polipo's behaviour on SIGHUP
> depend on an unrelated flag (-D) would be confusing.  And I fully
> agree with Julien -- if your log management system is unable to send
> SIGUSR2 instead of SIGHUP, then you're doing something wrong.

%s/Polipo/Babel/g ;-)

-- 
Gabriel



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