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On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 5:34 PM, Jeremy Stanley <fungi at yuggoth.org> wrote:
> On 2018-03-16 21:22:51 +0000 (+0000), Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> [...]
>> It seems mod_wsgi doesn't want python applications catching SIGHUP,
>> as Apache expects to be able to catch that. By default, it even ensures
>> signal handlers do not get registered.[0]
> [...]
>> Given we just had a goal to make all API services runnable as a WSGI
>> application, it seems wrong to enable mutable config for API services.
>> It's a super useful thing though, so I'd love to figure out a way we can do
>> it.
> [...]
>
> Given these are API services, can the APIs grow a (hopefully
> standardized) method to trigger this in lieu of signal handling? Or
> if the authentication requirements are too much, Zuul and friends
> have grown RPC sockets which can be used to inject these sorts of
> low-level commands over localhost to their service daemons (or could
> probably also do similar things over UNIX sockets if you don't want
> listeners on the loopback interface).

Throwing an idea out there, but maybe listening to file modification
events using something like inotify could be a possibility?

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> Jeremy Stanley
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