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Subject: Re: ppp & signals pending 
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From: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
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> On Tue, 11 Mar 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > Everything that's trapped with a call to Hangup() is fatal, but I suspect
> > that HUP was causing the malloc() recursion.
> 
> 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.

Good spot, so does anyone have any problems with using HUP as a re-open
log file signal ?  As ppp doesn't use syslog, newsyslog turns over the
file with no way of getting ppp -auto to notice.

> -- 
> Andrey A. Chernov
> <ache@null.net>
> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/
> 

-- 
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>, <brian@freebsd.org>
      <http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....