Date: Tue, 11 Mar 1997 23:48:32 +0100 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD-current) Subject: Re: ppp & signals pending Message-ID: <19970311234832.KY35137@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970312000423.1281A-100000@nagual.ru>; from ??????????????? on Mar 12, 1997 00:09:02 %2B0300 References: <199703112004.UAA06847@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970312000423.1281A-100000@nagual.ru>
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As ??????????????? wrote: > HUP must never come during normal mode because modem is not control > terminal for PPP. PPP code strangely use every second carrier check > instead of using HUP on control terminals. Acquiring a controlling tty different from the current one is only possible by allocating a new session first (setsid()), which is only possible by forking first. Thus, only a true daemon can do it. IIJPPP doesn't always want to be a true daemon. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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