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authorEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1996-12-17 10:50:11 +0000
committerEric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>1996-12-17 10:50:11 +0000
commit22d39ae5b5cd6db62af087f3dc64ee7b4566ca0a (patch)
tree17d434cb03c21a0cd7b4b21db84527660941f6ad
parent2f22276496550d1b86e7c5ee48ff26c746cfe40d (diff)
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SIGHUP -> SIGUSR1.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=647
-rw-r--r--NEWS7
-rw-r--r--fetchmail.c10
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index db9e289d..f7014c97 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
error(), but since they are built piecemeal, they go to stderr. What
would be needed is an error() variant that didn't write a message until
it got a trailing \n -- otherwise, if a syslog option were added, these
- messages would wind up as separate syslog calls -- probably not the desired
- result.
+ messages would wind up as separate syslog calls (probably not the desired
+ result).
Release Notes:
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ features --
through the error() subroutine. This is a first step towards allowing
a daemon-mode fetchmail to use syslog.
+* SIGUSR1 is now used for wakeup rather than SIGHUP. This eliminates any
+ possible confusion about fetchmail's behavior at logout time.
+
bugs --
* Fixed a FreeBSD compilation glitch involving SIGCLD (thanks to
diff --git a/fetchmail.c b/fetchmail.c
index 6c18dedb..59b59a01 100644
--- a/fetchmail.c
+++ b/fetchmail.c
@@ -252,7 +252,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
pid);
return(PS_EXCLUDE);
}
- else if (kill(pid, SIGHUP) == 0)
+ else if (kill(pid, SIGUSR1) == 0)
{
fprintf(stderr,
"fetchmail: background fetchmail at %d awakened.\n",
@@ -263,7 +263,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
/*
* Should never happen -- possible only if a background fetchmail
- * croaks after the first kill probe above but before the SIGHUP
+ * croaks after the first kill probe above but before the SIGUSR1
* transmission.
*/
fprintf(stderr,
@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
* side effect of interrupting any sleep that may be going on,
* forcing fetchmail to re-poll its hosts.
*/
- signal(SIGHUP, donothing);
+ signal(SIGUSR1, donothing);
/* here's the exclusion lock */
if ( (lockfp = fopen(lockfile,"w")) != NULL ) {
@@ -426,8 +426,8 @@ int main (int argc, char **argv)
setitimer(ITIMER_REAL,&ntimeout,NULL);
signal(SIGALRM, donothing);
pause();
- if (lastsig == SIGHUP)
- (void) error(0, 0, "awakened by SIGHUP");
+ if (lastsig == SIGUSR1)
+ (void) error(0, 0, "awakened by SIGUSR1");
}
if (outlevel == O_VERBOSE)