From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 10 01:50:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA03076 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 01:50:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl (schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl [130.89.238.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02940; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 01:49:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gelderen@mediaport.org) Received: from wit395301.student.utwente.nl ([130.89.235.121]:9220 "HELO deskfix" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]") by schuimpje.snt.utwente.nl with SMTP id <7989-21506>; Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:48:31 +0100 Message-ID: <008d01be0c8f$188b6dc0$1400000a@deskfix.local> From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" To: "Sheldon Hearn" , "Dmitry Valdov" Cc: "Kris Kennaway" , "Brian Somers" , Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ip.c Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:47:14 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-Mimeole: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: Sheldon Hearn >Even if ppp does the route cleanup for you, a signal 9 (KILL) doesn't >allow it to attempt graceful exit. This means that building cleanup code >into ppp would not "fix it in ppp", since the code would never be >reached once a SIGKILL is received. Just a humble thought: route removal can be seen as cleanup, but it can also be seen as preparation. Maybe you can do it at ppp startup. Or -if that's not possible- you may be able to detect the condition as handle it gracefully... Cheers, Jeroen (who does not run ppp) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message