Re: Dynamical Control of the ACL's

Stephen R. van den Berg wrote:
>
> Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> >I had a patch to extend cachemgr with functions to selectively reload
> >ACL definitions, but it got refused by Duane.
>
> Why? (Just curious).

Duane wrote:

> This is not something I'm very comfortable with supporting
> right now. I worry that it sets a precedent for all sorts of other
> "cute features" that we can probably get by without.
>
> Is "refresh ACL lists from cachemgr" any better or different
> than SIGHUP, except that you don't have to actually log in
> to the cache box?

My answer was in short:

a) Fine. The code was more "cute" than actually needed.

b) Better, but not really different.

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Henrik Nordstrom
Spare time Squid hacker