On 2011/04/06 15:09, Piotr Sikora wrote: > Hi, > > >> > Because it is next to impossible to get a correct return. By default, > >> > all we can check is that SIGHUP was successfull or not, that's it. > >> > >> Yes, but there are 8 ports that have custom rc_reload logic. > > > >What does this have to do with anything? > > Uhm... They *do* return correct exit value in case of success / > error, which means that returning "daemon(ok/failed)" in their case > is useful.
The only way I'd accept this is if we had something like reload_can_fail, and only print ok/fail if a particular script supports it. However it does add complexity (and inevitable "why does daemon X say ok/fail when it reloads but other daemons don't" questions...) so I'm not sure if we want that.
