Comment 4 for bug 92177

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Scott James Remnant (Canonical) (canonical-scott) wrote : Re: SIGTERM for re-exec causes problems if Upstart isn't /sbin/init

Proposed solution is to use the initctl protocol to request a re-exec from Upstart, rather than a signal. That way this will fail nicely if Upstart is not the running init, rather than killing whatever is init at the moment.