Date: Thu, 03 Jul 1997 09:26:47 +0200 From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@dk.tfs.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: ache@nagual.pp.ru, brian@awfulhak.org, current@freebsd.org, chuckr@Glue.umd.edu, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: ppp & HUP. Message-ID: <3858.867914807@critter.dk.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 03 Jul 1997 13:02:24 %2B1000." <199707030302.NAA26921@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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In message <199707030302.NAA26921@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Bruce Evans writes: >>If nobody will explain why this HUP is neded (hanging shells perfectly >>killed by SIGKILL), I'll remove HUP sending from init. > >SIGHUP may have been to allow shells to propagate SIGHUP to children. >There may still be some problems here for parts of the process tree >not killed by the death of the controlling process. Perhaps shells >do a more complete job of propagating the SIGHUP? SIGHUP to processes with a controling tty, SIGTERM to the rest ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Power and ignorance is a disgusting cocktail.
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