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From: Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.asdfGroup.com>
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Hi!

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 12:47:54PM +0100, Dra?en Ka?ar wrote:
> Say I have a TCP server which listens on incoming connections on some TCP
> port. Occasionaly I'd like to install and run a new version of the server
> executable. Server source is under my control, for all intents and
> purposes.
[...] 
> Is there a way to get around this?

Probably you can just fork() after receiving SIGUSR1 and exit from parent
leaving child to process existing connection.

-- 
			WBR, Alex.