On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 7:58 PM, Evan Platt <e...@espphotography.com> wrote:
> At 04:52 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote:
>
>> My main objective is (on Apache with Windows) to reload the configuration
>> without interrupting any request still being processed on any TCP
>> connection.
>>
>> I believe the command httpd.exe -k restart was designed to do that.
>
> Not really. Have a look at
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/stopping.html
> which shows the difference between graceful and restart.

I believe Windows has a graceful stop (that eventually does forcibly
tear down a connection) but does not have a graceful restart.    I was
abstaining from the thread in the hopes that Bill Wrowe was lurking.

It's just a matter of not being implemented, probably complicated by
the single-child model.

-- 
Eric Covener
cove...@gmail.com

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