Hello,
Kind of basic question about nginx behavior here.
On the docs page Controlling nginx, it is said :
HUP → changing configuration, keeping up with a changed time zone (only
for FreeBSD and Linux), starting new worker processes with a new
configuration, graceful shutdown of old worker processes
This is exact since the HUP signal is used to reload configuration and
spawn new workers with it.
However, a little bit further on the same page, in the on-the-fly
upgrade
section, you got:
Send the HUP signal to the old master process. The old master process will
start new worker processes without re-reading the configuration. After
that, all new processes can be shut down gracefully, by sending the QUIT
signal to the new master process.
Is this behavior due to the USR2 signal previously sent, the old master
knowing it is the old one (and thus knowing it should avoid loading an
improper configuration suitable for another version)?
B. R.