[ovs-dev] [PATCH] fatal-signal: Don't warn when terminated by SIGALRM.

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Oct 5 19:59:27 UTC 2012


On Fri, Oct 05, 2012 at 12:55:12PM -0700, Ethan Jackson wrote:
> An Open vSwitch daemon is only terminated by SIGALRM if the
> --timeout option is specified on its command line.  Since the user
> specifically requested this behavior, a WARN level log message is
> too aggressive.  This patch downgrades the log message to an INFO
> when terminated by a SIGALRM.

The normal use of --timeout is to abort when something has
presumptively gone wrong.  Logging a warning seems like a reasonable
way to indicate that, to me.



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