From: Rafael Sadowski <rafael@sizeofvoid.org>
Subject: Re: relayd reload race crash
To: Nick Owens <mischief@offblast.org>
Cc: tech@openbsd.org
Date: Sun, 1 Mar 2026 16:01:44 +0100

On Sun Mar 01, 2026 at 05:50:55AM -0800, Nick Owens wrote:
> 
> yes, broken client connections aren't ideal, but i feel it's better than
> relayd giving up the ghost entirely if for example in the extremely
> common case, one is using crontab like i do:
> 
> @weekly acme-client example.com && rcctl reload relayd
> 
> today if you do this you are simply playing russian roulette with your
> webserver.
> 

Until that is properly fixed, I would say "restart" instead of "reload"
to increase your chances in Russian roulette.