>-----Original Message----- >From: Joshua Slive [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [SNIP] > >On Tue, 25 May 2004, Mathihalli, Madhusudan wrote: > >> I have a patch that achieves the purpose - but it's more of a hack. >> I'm looking for suggestions to clean it up. >> >> Here's the current logic : >> >> - user invokes "apachectl updatecrl" which sends a SIGUSR2 signal to >> the parent process > >Question from an innocent bystander: Is there some reason that >"apachectl >graceful" isn't good enough for this situation? >
AIUI, the 'graceful' restart forces the child processes join all the threads and re-start. (Pl. let me know if this is incorrect). The requirement is to update the crl without causing the process to re-start in order to achieve a zero down-time. -Madhu
