Lighttpd

What happens with spawned backends on SIGINT? Do they get killed? If not, won't Lighttpd lose track of them?

stbuehler wrote:

lighty does not really loose track of them; as long as it can connect to the socket, it assumes the backend is running. when the socket goes down, it will respawn it.

Will it stop the backends (like it normally would) if you stop Lighttpd in that situation?

no; a new lighttpd instance has no reliable way of knowing the PID of the processes forked by the old instance.

I'm not suggesting any particular solution but I do think blogs should not be considered a primary source of documentation.
Neither should a migrating-from document.

I agreed that the documentation can be improved, suggested one way how to address the concern raised in this ticket, and asked you what you thought. You replied in the negative, with what you didn't think was sufficient (the blog post). That was not constructive and did not address my request to clarify what you thought would be better (as opposed to what would not be better).

Would you help to focus this ticket a bit, perhaps by providing a paragraph or two of suggested text, and a suggested location in the wiki that you think might be appropriate? Did you know that you can even edit the wiki, too?

IMO knowing what's not good is good too... ;)
Yes, I think a Running Lighttpd page would be good and I'm aware the Wiki is editable, I suck at writing docs though.

We can all improve if we try. I'm not "the best" at writing docs either. Why not post some suggested text here and we can edit together?

Is that what "Missing Feedback" is for? :p