Date: Wed, 02 Jul 1997 19:54:43 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: FreeBSD-current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>, Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, Chuck Robey <chuckr@Glue.umd.edu>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: ppp & HUP. Message-ID: <33BB1473.33590565@whistle.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970703060227.268B-100000@nagual.pp.ru>
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=?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Jul 1997, Brian Somers wrote: > > > > > reboot(8) will send SIGTERMs to the processes, but not SIGHUPs. > > > > death() in init.c :( > > I start thinking that sending HUP from init is a bug because: > 1) It increase disk activity just before shutdown since all daemons > re-read their configs. > 2) It cause redials for redial-able software as uucp (and ppp some time > ago). > > If nobody will explain why this HUP is neded (hanging shells perfectly > killed by SIGKILL), I'll remove HUP sending from init. > I have processes that close down assuming they have 5 or 6 seconds to do so when they receive HUP. it's traditional. I don't like changing such traditions..
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