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Date:      Mon, 2 Dec 1996 13:14:50 +1100
From:      Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
To:        archie@whistle.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /dev/tun0 question
Message-ID:  <199612020214.NAA07079@godzilla.zeta.org.au>

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>Try the following command (if you have a tunnel device configured)..
>
>  cat < /dev/tun0
>
>The process gets stuck in disk wait and can't be killed, even with
>kill -9 .. how come?

tunread() sleeps uninterruptibly.  This should be easy to fix - just
add PCATCH to the tsleep flags and return if the sleep is interrupted.
There seems to be no state to clean up.

Bruce



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