Settings manager pluguns reloading patch

Jasper Huijsmans jasper at moongroup.com
Wed Apr 2 10:47:20 CEST 2003


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
> On Wed, 02, Apr 2003, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Looks fine to me. Please go ahead and commit that :)
>>
>>Done. Finally got around to it. I changed SIGHUP to SIGUSR1 at edscott's
>>suggestion. 
> 
> 
> Hm, I think SIGHUP is more common as a reload signal. Whats the point of
> using SIGUSR1?
> 

Well, the reason is that the program receives a SIGHUP when X exits. 
There's no use trying to reload modules in that case. I don't have a 
strong opinion on this, though.

	Jasper





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