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Date:      Tue, 24 May 2005 07:59:10 +1000 (EST)
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
Cc:        nocturnal <nocturnal@swehack.se>, freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ping core dumped at random char input
Message-ID:  <20050524075618.J68548@delplex.bde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20050523212025.F16083@mp2.macomnet.net>
References:  <4292049E.1010208@swehack.se> <20050523212025.F16083@mp2.macomnet.net>

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On Mon, 23 May 2005, Maxim Konovalov wrote:

> On Mon, 23 May 2005, 18:28+0200, nocturnal wrote:

>> This happened at work when i was pinging a host which was down and
>> out of frustration i banged the keyboard a bit.
>>
>> ping: sendto: Host is down
>> <zping: sendto: Host is down
>> sping: sendto: Host is down
>> xda<zsping: sendto: Host is down
>> ^\Quit (core dumped)
>
> Expected behaviour, ^\ sends SIGQUIT to ping(8).

Also, longstanding bugs in signal handling break killing ping gracefully
using SIGINT.

Bruce



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