>Well for one thing, the child process could handle sighup I've come across programs that use SIGHUP for various things like config reloading when they could u

>Well for one thing, the child process could handle sighup I've come across programs that use SIGHUP for various things like config reloading when they could use USR1/USR2 instead. UNIX signals are kind of crap in my opinion. USR1/USR2 should probably not even exist, there should be some other way to 'message' processes without IPC.