From owner-freebsd-current Sat Mar 22 13:30:53 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA01456 for current-outgoing; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 13:30:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA01450 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 13:30:49 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA19544; Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:18:09 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199703222118.OAA19544@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: 2.2R (src 2.2 211): == dialing To: rb@gid.co.uk (Bob Bishop) Date: Sat, 22 Mar 1997 14:18:09 -0700 (MST) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Bob Bishop" at Mar 22, 97 07:41:01 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >For some strange reason, the `shutdown_nice()' in the kernel sends a > >SIGHUP to all processes first. I've also noticed messages like > >``Reloading nameserver'' or such. > > The SIGHUP was historically intended to 'hang up' sessions on serial ports. > Processes not attached to a terminal shouldn't be sent the signal. That was my impression reading this exchange as well. I think we still have issues with propagation of signals to the other processes in a process group when the group leader is signalled, as well. Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.