supervisorctl reload causes supervisord process to exit and not restart unless it was running in the foreground (supervisord -n)

[benoitg]

This is on supervisor 3.1.3, python 2.7 venv on ubuntu

If starting in the foreground (supervisord -n) and running supervisorctl reload from another shell, everything works properly: all processes are shutdown, and then re-started.

If starting normally (supervisord) and running supervisorctl reload, it acts exactly as if supervisorctl shutdown was called. Nothing unusial in the log when testing with supervisord -e debug

[benoitg]

It seems this is related to supervisord having loaded the config file in the current directory. If I pass the file explicitely to supervisord (-c abs_path_of_file) the bug does not occur.