A decent update mechanism for bitlbee in irssi

[anonymous]

The update mechanism for bitlbee is not acting "decent" when bitlbee is run in irssi. Well, decent is not exactly the correct term for it, but you know what I mean.

The problem is that when updating the bitlbee executable is definitely updated, but somehow irssi sticks to the old one in memory and refuses to load the updated one. The only solution to solve this right now is messing with irssi until catches on.

[anonymous]

Just another observation:

I managed to make irrsi aware of the new Bitlbee version (825). I discovered that logging in on MSN still fails the first attempt on getting the buddy list but on the second attempt it succeeds immediately. So you did a great job in solving that issue. Good work, gentlemen.

[Wilmer van der Gaast <wilmer@…>]

Assuming your BitlBee is running in ForkDaemon mode, all you need to do is reconnect. Obviously just installing a new binary without reconnecting isn't going to magically get you connected to a new BitlBee version.

[wilmer]

Feel free to comment if anything of the above is not clear. It doesn't like there's anything to be improved in BitlBee here.

[anonymous]

Yes, I do now know that reconnecting does the trick.

I was confused about the restarting procedure that almost all Linux programs do after being updated. However I found out that bitlbee does restart itself but irssi does not (because it is not updated) and of course bitlbee can't touch irssi. So I confirm it works for me too.

Thanks for the explanation.

[wilmer]

Yes, the forkdaemon master process is restarted but your serving child process is not. Just like when your browser/terminal/X/etc gets upgraded by apt-get or so, it doesn't automatically get killed/restarted as that could be pretty frustrating.