[bug #20656] Init machinery: ``kill -HUP 1''

[Thomas Schwinge]

URL:
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                 Summary: Init machinery: ``kill -HUP 1''
                 Project: The GNU Hurd
            Submitted by: tschwinge
            Submitted on: Thursday 08/02/07 at 01:20
                Category: Hurd
                Severity: 1 - Wish
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Standard Compliance
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
         Reproducibility: Every Time
              Size (loc): None
         Planned Release: None
                  Effort: 0.00
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Details:

On UNIXy system, ``kill -HUP 1'' is sometimes being used to inform the `init'
process that `/etc/inittab' should be re-read.  Doing so on a Hurd system will
get you an endlessly looping output like this on the console:

#v+
Resource lost
/libexec/runsystem: line 116: /bin/sh: (ipc/send) invalid port right
Resource lost
/libexec/runsystem: /libexec/rc: /bin/bash: bad interpreter: (ipc/send)
invalid port right
[...]
#v-

The system is still usable, but very slowly.  Rebooting helps...





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