rndc halt -p behavior

[Mark Andrews]

In message <2971F259-4897-48F8-B418-2F759907596B at gronkulator.com>, Rich Goodson
 writes:
> The behavior of 'rndc halt -p' appears to be different from the =20
> documentation.
> 
> According to the BIND 9.4 ARM rndc section:
> halt [-p] Stop the server immediately. Recent changes made through =20
> dynamic update or IXFR
> are not saved to the master =EF=AC=81les, but will be rolled forward =
> from the =20
> journal =EF=AC=81les when the
> server is restarted. If -p is speci=EF=AC=81ed named=E2=80=99s process =
> id is =20
> returned. This allows an external
> process to determine when named had completed halting.
> 
> But the actual behavior seems to be that 'rndc halt -p' returns =20
> immediately with the PID of named, but a 'ps -ef' shows named still =20
> running until it's done answering its unfinished recursive queries (or =20=
> 
> whatever it's busy doing).
> 
> Is rndc broken, or is the documentation wrong, or am I missing =20
> something?
> 
> If it makes a difference, this is on a server that exclusively does =20
> recursive resolution and does not serve any authoritative zones.
> 
> -rich

	named is just freeing all memory that it has allocated.  If there
	has been a memory leak this is when it will be detected.

	Mark
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