servr does not reclaim daemonised servers after deamon_stop()

[Deleted user]

My understanding of how deamon_stop() works is that it should reclaim the indexes of daemonised servers that have been stopped. This doesn't appear to happen when this workflow is followed:

1. Download https://github.com/rstudio/bookdown-demo
2. Launch the bookdown-demo.Rproj project
3. Run the following

bookdown:::serve_book()
servr::daemon_stop(1)
bookdown:::serve_book()
servr::daemon_stop(1)

4. Unexpectedly, the second serving of the book is hosted on deamonised server 2

servr::daemon_list()
# [1] 2

Is this expected behaviour?

[yihui]

The index is incremented each time a server is started. daemon_stop() stops and removes the server. It doesn't do anything about the indexes.

In your case, the second bookdown:::serve_book() must have instructed you that the way to stop the server is servr::daemon_stop(2) instead of servr::daemon_stop(1).