On Wed, 2 Apr 2014, Kevin Ballard wrote:
> On Apr 2, 2014, at 1:16 PM, SanskritFritz <sanskritfr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Apr 2, 2014 at 7:10 PM, Kevin Ballard <ke...@sb.org> wrote:
> >> What's the correct way to restart fishd after building and installing a
> >> new version of fish? If I `killall fishd` all my terminal windows start
> >> spewing data about not being able to connect, and also emit 2 lines about
> >> attempting to restart fishd and not having it work. I also tried `killall
> >> fishd; and fishd` and that didn't work either. In the end I've been
> >> quitting and relaunching Terminal.app after installing a new fish just to
> >> ensure all my shells are properly connected back to fishd.
> >>
> >> But surely the active developers don't restart every instance of fish on
> >> their system when installing a new version, right?
> >
> > Simply exit fish, then fishd automatically exits too. Check it with ps
> > -ef | grep fish
>
> At any given time I have at least half a dozen fish instances running
> (because I have a bunch of Terminal windows open at all times). This is why I
> mentioned quitting & relaunching Terminal.app. But it would be nice if there
> was a way to fix this without taking that step.
>
> I do recognize that if fishd changes significantly, starting up the new fishd
> with an old version of fish trying to talk to it may not work, but I’m
> guessing that fishd doesn’t actually change that often, and that when it does
> change, it’s even less common for the change to be backwards-incompatible.
Indeed. I don't know about others, but mostly I just keep an eye on the
commit logs and hope for the best.
There haven't been any changes which require restarting all fish and fishd
instances as far as I can remember, although there are occasionally fixes
that require fishd restarts (e.g. the fix for #1225).
In fixing #1257 & #1359, I suspect breaking changes
that will require a restart of all running fish and fishd instances will
be required. If so, clear warnings in the commit message, on the mailing
list and in release notes will be helpful.
David Adam
zanc...@ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
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