[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#807311: init-d-script: do_reload_sigusr1 sends sighup, not sigusr1

[Robbie Harwood]

Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com> writes:

> [Robbie Harwood]
>> It's pretty common for SIGHUP to reload config as well as SIGUSR1.
>>
>> So, my suggestion would be define a new way of doing this, file bugs
>> with patches against anyone using do_reload_sigusr1, and then remove
>> do_reload_sigusr1.
>>
>> One way that might be nice is to make a function do_reload_signal, which
>> would send $SIGNAL (or $RELOAD_SIGNAL) as an argument to
>> start-stop-daemon.
>
> I did not quite understand the problem.  Can you explain in a bit more
> detail?
>
> Today scripts wanting to use SIGHUP to reload can implement do_reload()
> similar to the way do_reload_sigusr1() is implemented.  Those wanting
> SIGUSR1 can use do_reload_sigusr1() by providing it as an alias for
> do_reload().  What more is needed?

As per this bug's original filing: do_reload_sigusr1() calls SIGHUP, not
SIGUSR1.
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