On Tuesday, December 03, 2013 4:55:58 pm Colin Percival wrote: > Author: cperciva > Date: Tue Dec 3 21:55:57 2013 > New Revision: 258894 > URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/258894 > > Log: > The rc system aggressively caches the contents of /etc/rc.conf in order to > improve boot performance; this produces arguably astonishing (non-)results > if /etc/rc.conf is modified during the boot process. > > Since performance considerations make it infeasible to automatically detect > if the cached /etc/rc.conf parameters should be invalidated, provide a > mechanism for explicitly requesting that /etc/rc.conf be reloaded: Catch > SIGALRM and reload /etc/rc.conf if it is received.
Might have been worth mentioning explicitly why you didn't use SIGHUP in the log message (found it in the thread on rc@). ALRM does seem like an odd choice compared to, say, USR1. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
