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I am curious does anyone know why Nginx uses SIGWINCH for this? I know Apache uses WINCH as well which makes me wonder if there was some historical reason a ser
by bogomipz 5y ago
I am curious does anyone know why Nginx uses SIGWINCH for this? I know Apache uses WINCH as well which makes me wonder if there was some historical reason a server process wound up using a signal meant for a TTY?
- xyzzy_plugh 5y agoIt's otherwise unused in the context of a daemon. SIGHUP is similarly popular and historically designed for use with a TTY.
- bogomipz 5y agoThat's what I suspected - that it would pretty much be guaranteed to not to be needed however I was not able to find any historical UNIX lore mentioning it specifically. Cheers.