Settings manager pluguns reloading patch

Benedikt Meurer Benedikt.Meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Wed Apr 2 11:10:27 CEST 2003


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.

Ok, that looks reasonable.

> 	Jasper

regards,
Benedikt

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