Re[2]: [Exim] Exim -C and child inheritence of the config fi…

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Συντάκτης: Philip Hazel
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Προς: Richard Welty
Υ/ο: exim-users
Αντικείμενο: Re[2]: [Exim] Exim -C and child inheritence of the config file
On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Richard Welty wrote:

> well, it didn't used to pick up the new one; the child that was spun off
> used to get the same one as the parent.
>
> this could have changed. better review the recent change log entries.


Richard, there is some confusion here; what you have stated isn't right.
A new exec of Exim has always read the config file again - there's too
much state information to pass any other way. However, if Exim just
forks without re-execing, it doesn't re-read the config file. So, for
example, a daemon reads the config, and then uses that config for every
reception process it spins off. However, when a reception process forks
a delivery process that re-execs (to regain privilege), the config is
re-read.

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