On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 02:07:09PM +0200, Paul wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if Igor Sysoev is aware of this:
>
> When running nginx in debug mode (I was debugging a custom module for nginx
> in gdb):
> master_process off;
> daemon off;
> Nginx breaks down when sending a HUP signal (reload configuration), it just
> closes the connections after they were established.
>
> I was testing it with many modules and some patches on 0.7.51 with extra
> compile options -o0 and -ggdb, but I did another test without any options
> given to ./configure with 0.7.52 and the problem occures there too.
>
> I don't know if Igor Sysoev does care about it because those option are
> only for debugging, but just to let you know.

The segfault occurs with "master_process off" only.
And yes, this mode is intended for debugging only.

As to "daemon off", there are no segfaults.


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Igor Sysoev
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