On 01/15/11 13:09, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
> 2011/1/15 Phil Stracchino <ala...@metrocast.net
> <mailto:ala...@metrocast.net>>
>
> No. I don't know enough about the internals of the Director to know why
> it is unsafe, but experience has shown that it is. Sooner or later, a
> reload ... perhaps overwrites a buffer or pointer that's in use, perhaps
> tries to replace a structure that is locked because it's in use, I don't
> know exactly what happens; but the reload fails, and from then on the
> Director doesn't work properly until it's restarted.
>
>
> Well, "Use the source, Luke" :)
>
> A function "void reload_config(int sig)" explains how it works internally:
Oh, certainly, and it is designed to operate cleanly. Nevertheless, it
does not always do so.
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