From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 23 13: 8:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (gw.Awfulhak.org [217.204.245.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 739A437B403 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:08:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org [fec0::1:12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id f7NK8tv38804; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:08:55 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f7NK8ig85908; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:08:44 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200108232008.f7NK8ig85908@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu Cc: Brian Somers , Dmitry Morozovsky , freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@freebsd-services.com, brian@freebsd-services.com Subject: Re: bin/29966: cleanup of ppp server socket on unclean startup In-Reply-To: Message from "Crist J. Clark" of "Thu, 23 Aug 2001 11:04:41 PDT." <20010823110440.A81976@blossom.cjclark.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 21:08:44 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > If bind() maybe returned EADDRNOTAVAIL instead of EADDRINUSE for > > stale socket files, maybe ppp could do something about this... > > That again reminds that the complete fix would be to get ppp(8) to > handle the problem since this is not only a boot time issue. Which it can't do. It can't tell the difference between a stale socket file and an in-use socket file. > -- > Crist J. Clark cjclark@alum.mit.edu -- Brian http://www.freebsd-services.com/ Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message