upgrading binaries with USR2 results in two severs running

[Maxim Dounin]

Hello!

On Wed, Nov 03, 2010 at 03:22:53AM -0400, megamic wrote:

> Shouldent the original process die after it starts the new process? I
> see another server start up, but the old one hang around:

No.  It should hang around.  Moreever, it should still process 
requests.  If you see new binary successfully started up - you are 
free to instruct old process to shutdown (actually, you are free 
to do it even if you don't see new binary started up - but you 
probably don't want to).

Maxim Dounin