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Date:      Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:35:01 +0000
From:      Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        Ian Dowse <iedowse@maths.tcd.ie>, Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, iedowse@maths.tcd.ie
Subject:   Re: suspend/restore with ppp connections 
Message-ID:   <200103121535.aa13342@salmon.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 12 Mar 2001 15:26:50 GMT." <20010312152650.D87895@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 

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In message <20010312152650.D87895@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>, j mckitrick writes:
>| +		(*linesw[com->tp->t_line].l_close)(com->tp, 0);
>
>What does this part do?

It's the missing call to the line discipline's l_close() routine.
I'm not sure if this is important with ppp, but when using the
kernel slip driver, this was necessary if you ejected the card or
suspended while slip was running. Otherwise, slip would refuse to
run again until after the next reboot.

Ian

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