On 01/15/11 13:09, Radosław Korzeniewski wrote:
> 2011/1/15 Phil Stracchino <alaric AT metrocast DOT net
> <mailto:alaric AT metrocast DOT net>>
> 
>     No.  I don't know enough about the internals of the Director to know why
>     it is unsafe, but experience has shown that it is.  Sooner or later, a
>     reload ... perhaps overwrites a buffer or pointer that's in use, perhaps
>     tries to replace a structure that is locked because it's in use, I don't
>     know exactly what happens; but the reload fails, and from then on the
>     Director doesn't work properly until it's restarted.
> 
> 
> Well,  "Use the source, Luke" :)
> 
> A function "void reload_config(int sig)" explains how it works internally:

Oh, certainly, and it is designed to operate cleanly.  Nevertheless, it
does not always do so.


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