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| author | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-10-30 13:01:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Nick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org> | 2017-10-30 13:01:51 -0400 |
| commit | 4c383824b8b120a3289d0d94bc8ff1545046c216 (patch) | |
| tree | c2a96d24194a1cc758afb75077e52f7c4707fe5b /control-spec.txt | |
| parent | 0fd44031bfd6c6c822bfb194e54a05118c9625e2 (diff) | |
| download | torspec-4c383824b8b120a3289d0d94bc8ff1545046c216.tar.gz torspec-4c383824b8b120a3289d0d94bc8ff1545046c216.zip | |
Control-spec: document which signals have POSIX equivalents
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diff --git a/control-spec.txt b/control-spec.txt index 19eabcf..aea406c 100644 --- a/control-spec.txt +++ b/control-spec.txt @@ -428,14 +428,14 @@ The meaning of the signals are: - RELOAD -- Reload: reload config items. (like HUP) + RELOAD -- Reload: reload config items. SHUTDOWN -- Controlled shutdown: if server is an OP, exit immediately. If it's an OR, close listeners and exit after - ShutdownWaitLength seconds. (like INT) + ShutdownWaitLength seconds. DUMP -- Dump stats: log information about open connections and - circuits. (like USR1) - DEBUG -- Debug: switch all open logs to loglevel debug. (like USR2) - HALT -- Immediate shutdown: clean up and exit now. (like TERM) + circuits. + DEBUG -- Debug: switch all open logs to loglevel debug. + HALT -- Immediate shutdown: clean up and exit now. CLEARDNSCACHE -- Forget the client-side cached IPs for all hostnames. NEWNYM -- Switch to clean circuits, so new application requests don't share any circuits with old ones. Also clears @@ -447,6 +447,16 @@ closes the socket if it was asked to close immediately), or "552 Unrecognized signal" if the signal is unrecognized. + Note that not all of these signals have POSIX signal equivalents. The + ones that do are as below. You may also use these POSIX names for the + signal that have them. + + RELOAD: HUP + SHUTDOWN: INT + HALT: TERM + DUMP: USR1 + DEBUG: USR2 + 3.8. MAPADDRESS Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is: |