From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:16:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:16:52 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:56072 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 2 Nov 2002 21:16:51 -0500 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2002 23:23:08 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Krishna Kumar Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Mobile IPv6 for 2.5.45 Message-ID: <20021102232308.A4482@almesberger.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: ; from kumarkr@us.ibm.com on Sat, Nov 02, 2002 at 01:13:22PM -0800 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org [ Cc: trimmed ] Krishna Kumar wrote: > userspace - what happens when signals (KILL) are sent to that process ? They die, as they should. > We don't want the home agent functionality to stop in that case, even > if it is a system admin error. So what makes the home agent so much more important than, say, named, pppd, gated, portmap, inetd, sendmail, sshd, etc. ? A much more common admin mistake would be to reboot the wrong box, or to disconnect the wrong cable, and you're powerless against this too. If all else fails, add this to ~root/.bashrc: alias kill='echo "Sorry, you'\''re too dumb for this"; false' :-) - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/