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meejah / txtorcon

Twisted-based asynchronous Tor control protocol implementation. Includes unit-tests, examples, state-tracking code and configuration abstraction.
http://fjblvrw2jrxnhtg67qpbzi45r7ofojaoo3orzykesly2j3c2m3htapid.onion/
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Why does launch_tor() do "resetconf __OwningControllerProcesses" #65

Open meejah opened 10 years ago

meejah commented 10 years ago

asn reports in #ooni that Tor appears to re-load/re-set itself similar to a HUP after the "RESETCONF __OwningControllerProcess" at the end of launch_tor() setup. (e.g. it re-opens its log file, it seems).

Explore whether this call is actually needed and/or other implications.

(See Tor bug https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/11156, but I don't remember why there's a RESETCONF at all, so that should be documented).