From: James Cameron <james.cameron@hp.com>
To: linux-ppp@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: about pppd termination?
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 00:56:10 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080522005609.GI6559@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805211447103125311@foxmail.com>
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:38:39AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> There does still remain the question of how pppd gets any
> connector/disconnector processes to stop if pppd has to terminate for
> other reasons, such as getting a SIGSEGV, though.
Yes, or SIGKILL. I remember one user who habitually used -9 and then
complained that the connector (pptp) wasn't terminating forthwith.
Tracking each process created would be effective, and could remove the
need for a process group kill. I'm just not sure if that level of
change is justified.
--
James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/
HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/
PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-21 6:47 about pppd termination? cyx_mail
2008-05-21 6:56 ` James Cameron
2008-05-21 7:10 ` cyx_mail
2008-05-21 14:23 ` James Carlson
2008-05-21 23:08 ` James Cameron
2008-05-21 23:14 ` James Carlson
2008-05-22 0:00 ` James Cameron
2008-05-22 0:38 ` James Carlson
2008-05-22 0:38 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-05-22 0:52 ` James Cameron
2008-05-22 0:56 ` James Cameron [this message]
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