Anyone running spfd on Cygwin? (Attn: cygrunsrv maintainer)

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Thu, 11 Aug 2005, Herb Martin wrote:

> > [mailto:cygwin-owner@XXXXXX.XXX] On Behalf Of Brian Dessent
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 5:45 PM
> > To: cygwin@XXXXXX.XXX
> > Subject: Re: Anyone running spfd on Cygwin?

<http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>.  Thanks.

> [snip]
> Can a Cygwin program that is being run as a service be effectively sent
> a "HUP" to get it to re-read it's configuration?
>
> Assumptions:  That service accepts HUP and reloads its configuration
> when run as a daemon.
>
> 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()?
	Igor
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