bin/104623: "rc.d/ppp restart" stops all instances of ppp

[Nicolas Rachinsky]

The following reply was made to PR bin/104623; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Nicolas Rachinsky <freebsd-pr at cl.turing-complete.org>
To: Mike Makonnen <mtm at FreeBSD.Org>
Cc: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/104623: "rc.d/ppp restart" stops all instances of ppp
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 13:49:00 +0200

 * Mike Makonnen <mtm at FreeBSD.Org> [2007-03-31 13:49 +0300]:
 > +# usage: /etc/rc.d/ppp <cmd> [tunX]
 
 I haven't yet tried it, but I see one problem. AFAIK there is no
 mechanism to start more than one ppp with the current rc.d/ppp script
 via rc.conf. Thus I can't imagine how this can work if I do this with
 a tun device that does correspond to the ppp started via rc.d/ppp.
 
 And it will still terminate processes that are unrelated to the pp
 started via rc.d/ppp if it is used without the additional parameter.
 
 So I don't think, this can fix the real problem, that there is no way
 to identify the ppp instance that were started via rc.d/ppp. At least
 I see no such way.
 
 Do I miss something?
 
 Nicolas