Date: Fri, 04 Jul 1997 08:30:23 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: tom@uniserve.com (Tom), chuckr@glue.umd.edu, ache@nagual.pp.ru, current@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@awfulhak.org, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: ppp & HUP. Message-ID: <199707040730.IAA01082@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jul 1997 15:23:12 PDT." <199707032223.PAA09801@phaeton.artisoft.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
> > Exactly what processes actually exit upon receiving a HUP? Not many.
> > Apparently only some user processes. Daemons NEVER exit, instead they
> > thrash the system. Ugh.
>
> All of them that don't explicitly trap HUP.
>
> I always though this should have been handled by revoking the tty's
> allowing that to HUP to the process group. This would also mean
> removing the HUP sending from init.
Don't confuse the HUP that's sent to everything that's "on"
in /etc/ttys and the HUP that's sent in death() (before TERM
& KILL) when the system's coming down.
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
> ---
> Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
> or previous employers.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.org>, <brian@freebsd.org>
<http://www.awfulhak.org>;
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199707040730.IAA01082>