[Babel-users] SIGHUP shouldn't kill babeld

[Gabriel Kerneis]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 03:33:33PM +0200, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:
> > It is a very old tradition in UNIX daemons to use the SIGHUP signal for
> > exactly that reason: reload your config files and reopen your logs!
> > 
> > This seems to be what SIGUSR2 is doing to babel, and while I can adapt
> > my configuration to do that, it seems more appropriate for Babel to
> > follow usual standards.
> 
> There's a good reason for that.
> 
> A lot of people are running babeld from the terminal.  If babeld
> doesn't quit at SIGHUP, they will be left with babeld processes
> hanging around after they quit their session.

What about quitting on SIGHUP only if babeld is run on non-daemon mode?

-- 
Gabriel