commit 4c383824b8b120a3289d0d94bc8ff1545046c216 Author: Nick Mathewson nickm@torproject.org Date: Mon Oct 30 13:01:51 2017 -0400

Control-spec: document which signals have POSIX equivalents --- control-spec.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/control-spec.txt b/control-spec.txt index 19eabcf..aea406c 100644 --- a/control-spec.txt +++ b/control-spec.txt @@ -428,14 +428,14 @@

The meaning of the signals are:

- RELOAD -- Reload: reload config items. (like HUP) + RELOAD -- Reload: reload config items. SHUTDOWN -- Controlled shutdown: if server is an OP, exit immediately. If it's an OR, close listeners and exit after - ShutdownWaitLength seconds. (like INT) + ShutdownWaitLength seconds. DUMP -- Dump stats: log information about open connections and - circuits. (like USR1) - DEBUG -- Debug: switch all open logs to loglevel debug. (like USR2) - HALT -- Immediate shutdown: clean up and exit now. (like TERM) + circuits. + DEBUG -- Debug: switch all open logs to loglevel debug. + HALT -- Immediate shutdown: clean up and exit now. CLEARDNSCACHE -- Forget the client-side cached IPs for all hostnames. NEWNYM -- Switch to clean circuits, so new application requests don't share any circuits with old ones. Also clears @@ -447,6 +447,16 @@ closes the socket if it was asked to close immediately), or "552 Unrecognized signal" if the signal is unrecognized.

+ Note that not all of these signals have POSIX signal equivalents. The + ones that do are as below. You may also use these POSIX names for the + signal that have them. + + RELOAD: HUP + SHUTDOWN: INT + HALT: TERM + DUMP: USR1 + DEBUG: USR2 + 3.8. MAPADDRESS

Sent from the client to the server. The syntax is: