Hi, Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 01:58:03PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: [...] >> Note that FHS distros don’t do better: either the service is >> hot-replaceable (nginx; I don’t know of any other) or can at least >> reload its config (sshd, etc.), and then it’s dynamically upgraded, or >> it’ll be upgraded next time you restart it. >> >> That’s because fundamentally only the user can tell whether now is a >> good time to restart, say, sshd. > > Not exactly the point, but Debian regularly restarts sshd for me on a > remote box (somehow) without me losing the connection. Good point! I think sshd opens child processes for new sessions, and thanks to that it falls into the category of service that can be hot-replaced. For hot-swappable daemons, I think we should provide a specific ‘reload’ or ‘upgrade’ action as was discussed at <https://issues.guix.info/issue/26830>. That way, to figure out the right strategy, we would just check whether the service supports that action. Thanks, Ludo’.
