From j@uriah.heep.sax.de Sun Jul 2 09:25:49 1995 Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id JAA04225 for ; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 09:25:47 -0700 Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de with SMTP (5.67b+/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) id AA00512; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:25:44 +0200 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id SAA12715 for FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:25:44 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA00305; Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:20:22 +0200 Message-Id: <199507021620.SAA00305@uriah.heep.sax.de> Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 18:20:22 +0200 From: J Wunsch Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: iijppp may hang indefinitely X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 >Number: 581 >Category: bin >Synopsis: iijppp may hang indefinitely >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: joerg >State: closed >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Sun Jul 2 09:30:00 1995 >Closed-Date: Fri Feb 9 00:50:33 MET 1996 >Last-Modified: Fri Feb 9 00:52:20 MET 1996 >Originator: J Wunsch >Release: FreeBSD 2.2.0-Development i386 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD 2.0.5 or -current >Description: iijppp may hang indefinitely without a chance for the operator to get rid of it: o it refuses to co-operate with a job control shell (it catches sigtstp), so it cannot be brought into background when needed o it doesn't allow to interrupt it by ^C o when in terminal mode, one cannot go back if the modem or other end of connection dropped DTR, since the ppp process sleeps on ttyin (apparently on the outgoing line, not the controlling tty) In all of the above situations, the only chance is to have another terminal/window/whatever handy to clean up. >How-To-Repeat: Start iijppp. Try ^Z. Try ^C. Run the `term' subcommand on a non-existing modem. >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: pst State-Changed-When: Thu Feb 8 12:22:13 PST 1996 State-Changed-Why: Please verify this bug is fixed. Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->joerg Responsible-Changed-By: pst Responsible-Changed-When: Thu Feb 8 12:22:13 PST 1996 Responsible-Changed-Why: State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed State-Changed-By: joerg State-Changed-When: Fri Feb 9 00:50:33 MET 1996 State-Changed-Why: Atsushi (sp?) has been implementing my suggestion to care for ^Z, so this can be closed. >Unformatted: