Re: Re: about pppd termination?

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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.

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PPTP Client Project, Release Engineer http://pptpclient.sourceforge.net/
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