Commit 8a72c2bd authored by Roger Dingledine's avatar Roger Dingledine
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new controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests 

use clean circuits.


svn:r6104
parent 0f39033b

doc/control-spec.txt

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@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ $Id$ 
     "SIGNAL" SP Signal CRLF



     Signal = "RELOAD" / "SHUTDOWN" / "DUMP" / "DEBUG" / "HALT" /

              "HUP" / "INT" / "USR1" / "USR2" / "TERM"

              "HUP" / "INT" / "USR1" / "USR2" / "TERM" / "NEWNYM"



  The meaning of the signals are:
@@ -231,6 +231,8 @@ $Id$ 
                   circuits. (like USR1)

      DEBUG     -- Debug: switch all open logs to loglevel debug. (like USR2)

      HALT      -- Immediate shutdown: clean up and exit now. (like TERM)

      NEWNYM    -- Switch to clean circuits, so new application requests

                   don't share any circuits with old ones.



  The server responds with "250 OK" if the signal is recognized (or simply

  closes the socket if it was asked to close immediately), or "552