[RFC] stopsignal stanza

[Marc - A. Dahlhaus]

Am 02.05.2011 20:33, schrieb Scott James Remnant:
> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 11:31 AM, Marc - A. Dahlhaus <mad at wol.de
> <mailto:mad at wol.de>> wrote:
> 
>     Am 02.05.2011 19:58, schrieb Scott James Remnant:
>     --8<--
>     >     Talked about the topic with SpamapS on irc and he suggested
>     that we
>     >     choos another stanza for it as there is a bug open for sending
>     another
>     >     signal than HUP on reload...
>     >
>     >     Maybe we better use "signal {stop,reload} SIGNAL" for it?!
>     >
>     > I would prefer:
>     >
>     >   kill signal HUP
>     >
>     > since that goes better with timeout, etc. There should already be the
>     > code to translate signal names (normal exit uses it)
> 
>     Nice. For the messages that now mention "sending TERM signal", we need a
>     intval to signalname translation, is there one in nih?
> 
> Yup, in nih/signal.h - nih_signal_to_name

Nice...

>     >
>     >     Then we could also rename the system_kill function to
>     system_signal_send
>     >     and reuse it for the reloading also...
> 
>     That renaming ok for you?
> 
> system_send_signal () is less yoda ;-)

Looks like more of the force is needed to get such things into the code...

> Scott