On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:28:55AM +0100, Willy Tarreau wrote: > On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 11:19:41AM +0100, William Lallemand wrote: > > I don't like the idea of the "daemon" keyword being ignored, > > We already do that with -D which ignores "debug" for example. The command > line purposely has precedence over the config. > > > however, we could > > exit with an error when we try to start with -Ws + -D or daemon. > > Errors only cause gray hair to users, especially when they concern stuff > that can be automatically recovered from. We could definitely consider > that -Ws automatically implies MODE_FOREGROUND which will do exactly > what -db does, but without having to think about it. After all, "-Ws" > is "master-worker mode with systemd awareness" so it makes sense not > to background in this case. >
That's right, I agree. -- William Lallemand

