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From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org>
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        Brian Somers <brian@FreeBSD.ORG>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/usr.sbin/ppp ip.c 
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Sheldon Hearn wrote:

> 
> 
> On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 11:52:33 +0300, Dmitry Valdov wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, will be know. But why not to fix it in ppp? :) 
> 
> Hi Dmitry,
> 
> Even if ppp does the route cleanup for you, a signal 9 (KILL) doesn't
Duh.
> allow it to attempt graceful exit. This means that building cleanup code
> into ppp would not "fix it in ppp", since the code would never be
> reached once a SIGKILL is received.
> 
> Assuming you _want_ to send ppp a SIGKILL instead of SIGTERM, your best
> bet is to run ppp from a shell wrapper script and put the route cleanup
> in the script, after the line that runs ppp.
> 
> It would be nicer, though, if you could send ppp a SIGTERM instead. I
> remember that this wasn't always feasible last year when I used to use
> ppp (sometimes SIGTERM would have no apparent effect), but it's worth
I've noticed this too, sometimes having to SIGKILL ppp because SIGTERM
didn't seem to do much of anything.
> checking to see whether the software doesn't respond to this signal if
> you haven't checked already.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> Sheldon.
> 
Brian Feldman
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