Hi, On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 10:51:34AM +0200, Fabien Wernli wrote: > On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 09:27:25AM +0200, Sebastian Harl wrote: > > most/many/all parts of collectd actually support "reconfigure" as people > > might expect too much from SIGHUP else. > > agreed > > Just to be sure: the main collectd thread has no control over its child > threads in the current implementation?
As mentioned on IRC: the main collectd process controls the child threads by means of a pthread conditional variable and a boolean variable indicating whether the main process is still in its main loop. The former may be used to signal the child threads to re-check the "read loop" condition. HTH, Sebastian -- Sebastian "tokkee" Harl +++ GnuPG-ID: 0x8501C7FC +++ http://tokkee.org/ Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. -- Benjamin Franklin
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