This has been on my to-do list for ages. The decision to change from
SIGUSR1 to SIGWINCH just because a particular old version of Linux threads
happens to suck was a bad decision. Hard-coding the value within a
bunch of places in httpd was just bad coding.
I would really appreciate it if someone coded up a patch to add an
AP_SIG_GRACEFUL
definition, apply it everywhere in the code (and in the control scripts),
and then make it configurable using configure [default=SIGUSR1]. To make
it even better, we should have a way to signal it using httpd itself
httpd restart
httpd graceful
httpd stop
would check for an existing process and send it the appropriate signal.
That way we wouldn't be spreading implementation assumptions throughout
the support code.
....Roy
