Marco d'Itri writes: > pppd sends signals to the whole process group, so it must always create > a new one or it may kill the parent process and its siblings. > Currently setsid() is not called when the updetach option is used. > We want to make the detached and non-detached code paths as similar as > possible. I know there is a problem here but I don't think this patch is the right solution, because setsid fails and does nothing if the process is a process group leader, which it usually will be when run from a shell. There is a reason why the setsid in detach() is only done after forking. Paul. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ppp" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
