Re: svnserve could save its PID somewhere

Branko Čibej wrote:

> Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
>
>> [*] Btw: what signal should I send to svnserve to let it know
>> that I want it to shut down? Is simple TERM (15) the way to go?
>
> Come to think of it, svnserve doesn't handle signals as well as it
> should -- it should use some of the logic from the client, or svnlook.
> Once that's done, SIGTERM should be just fine.

On unix, svnserve uses fork by default. The main process is only a TCP
listener and it does not open the repository. For each connection a
child is forked that opens the repository. As long as you only kill the
main process you're safe, but if you kill one of the children, the
repository will need recovery. There is no way to safely stop a threaded
svnserve, though. :-(

/Tobias

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Received on Sun Jun 20 12:38:39 2004