From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 2 20:00:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA14807 for current-outgoing; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:00:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id UAA14802 for ; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 20:00:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA03563; Wed, 2 Jul 1997 19:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd003560; Thu Jul 3 02:56:06 1997 Message-ID: <33BB1473.33590565@whistle.com> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 19:54:43 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= CC: FreeBSD-current , Brian Somers , Chuck Robey , Joerg Wunsch Subject: Re: ppp & HUP. References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > reboot(8) will send SIGTERMs to the processes, but not SIGHUPs. > > > > death() in init.c :( > > I start thinking that sending HUP from init is a bug because: > 1) It increase disk activity just before shutdown since all daemons > re-read their configs. > 2) It cause redials for redial-able software as uucp (and ppp some time > ago). > > If nobody will explain why this HUP is neded (hanging shells perfectly > killed by SIGKILL), I'll remove HUP sending from init. > I have processes that close down assuming they have 5 or 6 seconds to do so when they receive HUP. it's traditional. I don't like changing such traditions..