SIGQUIT vs SIGTERM

[Dag-Erling Smørgrav]

Traditionally, Unix daemons will reload their configuration upon
receiving SIGHUP and terminate gracefully upon receiving SIGTERM.
Unbound follows this tradition, but in addition, it treats SIGINT
(Ctrl-C when not daemonized) and SIGQUIT (Ctrl-\ when not daemonized) as
equivalent to SIGTERM.  The man page documents SIGQUIT as the correct
way to terminate Unbound.

Setting aside the question of wheter intercepting SIGQUIT is a good idea
(I don't think it is, but it's probably too late to change it), this
state of affairs seems to confuse users.  Consider this FreeBSD bug
report from a user who claims that Unbound terminates cleanly when it
receives SIGQUIT, but not when it receives SIGTERM:

  https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=203580

In addition, some platforms don't even have SIGQUIT (cf r1097).

I therefore propose to change the man page so that it mentions SIGTERM
instead of SIGQUIT:

Index: doc/unbound.conf.5.in
===================================================================
--- doc/unbound.conf.5.in	(revision 3504)
+++ doc/unbound.conf.5.in	(working copy)
@@ -481,7 +481,7 @@
 .fi
 triggers a reload,
 .nf
-kill \-QUIT `cat @UNBOUND_PIDFILE@` 
+kill \-TERM `cat @UNBOUND_PIDFILE@` 
 .fi
 gracefully terminates.
 .TP

DES
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Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no