SIGQUIT vs SIGTERM

[W.C.A. Wijngaards]

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Hi Dag-Erling,

On 10/14/2015 01:44 PM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav via Unbound-users wrote:
> 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.

The initial man page was completely wrong, it seems.  I did not know
the difference between SIGQUIT and SIGTERM when I wrote it.

> 
> 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:

Of course, I'll change the man-page with the patch.

Best regards, Wouter

> 
> 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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