(ITS#4217) Sending a HUP to slapd with gentlehup on logs "abnormal shutdown"

[quanah@stanford.edu]

Full_Name: Quanah Gibson-Mount
Version: HEAD
OS: Solaris 8
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In playing with the gentlehup option, I noticed that when I HUP slapd to shut it
down, I see:

Nov 25 13:14:50 ldap-dev2.Stanford.EDU slapd[9723]: [ID 199731 local4.debug]
slapd gentle shutdown
Nov 25 13:14:50 ldap-dev2.Stanford.EDU slapd[9723]: [ID 430601 local4.debug]
daemon: abnormal condition, shutdown initiated.
Nov 25 13:14:50 ldap-dev2.Stanford.EDU slapd[9723]: [ID 542995 local4.debug]
slapd shutdown: waiting for 0 threads to terminate
Nov 25 13:14:50 ldap-dev2.Stanford.EDU slapd[9723]: [ID 486161 local4.debug]
slapd stopped.


which really seems odd... Why is this "abnormal"?  It actually seems like a
really nice thing to me... :P

--Quanah