HUP handling: a thought

[Alan DeKok]

Peter Nixon wrote:
> The system should do _something_ when it receives -HUP (other than crash). It 
> this turns out to be a full restart, then so be it...

  So there's a requirement to handle HUP.  I don't see why.

  How about a requirement to dynamically update the running
configuration?  That could be done via re-exec on HUP, or by the crazy
SQL scheme I talked about.

  I don't understand the fixation on HUP.  I don't like SQL, but if I
can use an SQL client to edit *every* configuration parameter in a
running server, I don't see why HUP would *ever* be necessary.

  Recent versions of OpenLDAP support an "dn=config", or something like
that.  It means any configuration parameter can be dynamically changed,
meaning you *never* have to HUP the server.

  Alan DeKok.
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