Settings manager pluguns reloading patch

[Benedikt Meurer]

On Wed, 02, Apr 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.
> 
> Ok, that looks reasonable.

I changed the panel to also use USR1 instead of HUP.

regards,
Benedikt

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