[OLSR-users] HUP signal handling

[Andreas Tønnesen]

Pawel Foremski wrote:
> I'm testing olsrd 0.4.8 (20041204) and I noticed it fails to restart properly 
> after receiving a HUP signal if IPC is enabled. After those 3 seconds which 
> new child waits to restart olsrd, IPC says that address is already in use and 
> exits with an error. Is this because current HUP handling is just a hack or 
> should I debug it more and try to find a bug :)?

It's becaouse the HUP handling is a hack. Plain and simple :)

> Oh, and one suggestion to secure plugin: I would check if the key isn't to 
> small before showing "Could not read key from keyfile" message, which can be 
> a bit confusing for "some" users :).

Done.

- Andreas

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