saltstack/salt — pull request #2817 by dekkers (2012-12-06 14:48:46+00:00)
Title: Add support for force-reload

This adds force_reload for debian_service, upstart and systemd and use it as default in mod_watch if available. See also the thread on the mailinglist about it:

https://groups.google.com/d/topic/salt-users/AK4zB1EsnFQ/discussion

For Debian/Ubuntu it is a requirement that init scripts support force-reload and both upstart and systemd implement the force-reload command. There are probably more that support force-reload, but I think it's better if somebody with more knowledge about those init systems look at it.