From owner-freebsd-current Thu Sep 11 03:29:05 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA12563 for current-outgoing; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 03:29:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from usr05.primenet.com (tlambert@usr05.primenet.com [206.165.6.205]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id DAA12556 for ; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 03:29:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr05.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA14337; Thu, 11 Sep 1997 03:28:50 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199709111028.DAA14337@usr05.primenet.com> Subject: Re: PPP - why set CLOCAL for server ('-direct' mode) ? To: Shimon@i-Connect.Net (Simon Shapiro) Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 10:28:50 +0000 (GMT) Cc: mike@smith.net.au, tlambert@primenet.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG, nnd@itfs.nsk.su In-Reply-To: from "Simon Shapiro" at Sep 10, 97 10:41:24 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > This is how a callout device works, although SIGHUP is only delivered > > if the port is the controlling tty of the process. Note, however, that > > user-mode ppp _doesn't_want_this_, which is the whole issue. > > So the device works properly. Good. It took several YEARS for > AT&T/USL/USG/etc. to get it streight. It doesn't, and they didn't. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.