On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 10:38:39AM +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote: > There does still remain the question of how pppd gets any > connector/disconnector processes to stop if pppd has to terminate for > other reasons, such as getting a SIGSEGV, though. Yes, or SIGKILL. I remember one user who habitually used -9 and then complained that the connector (pptp) wasn't terminating forthwith. Tracking each process created would be effective, and could remove the need for a process group kill. I'm just not sure if that level of change is justified. -- James Cameron http://quozl.netrek.org/ HP Open Source, Volunteer http://opensource.hp.com/ PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/ -- 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