Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 00:01:03 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: brian@Awfulhak.org, julian@whistle.com Cc: archie@whistle.com, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: **HEADS UP** user-ppp has changed ! Message-ID: <199805231401.AAA27232@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>I've now tested against mpd for a single link. Unfortunately, ppp >still has a known bug playing server mode. It can't continue to use >real tty device descriptors after they've been passed through a local >socket (via SCM_RIGHTS) - as soon as the controlling process group >goes away, a d_close happens at the device level despite the open >descriptor. AFAICT this is *not* just a descriptor-passing-through-socket >bug - my diagnostics see the devices' d_close being called more than >once even before the descriptor has had anything special done to it. >See my unanswered posting to -hackers with a subject line ``SCM_RIGHTS >& session ids''.... Access to a controlling terminal is revoked when its controlling process goes away. See kern_exit.c. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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