Bug 163950

Summary: ifup-ppp keeps a shell in memory needlessly
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Avi Kivity <avi>
Component: initscriptsAssignee: Bill Nottingham <notting>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Brock Organ <borgan>
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Version: 4CC: denis, rvokal
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Fixed In Version: 8.32-1 Doc Type: Enhancement
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reduce persistent process count in ifup-ppp none

Description Avi Kivity 2005-07-22 11:42:05 UTC 
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Description of problem:
ifup-ppp spans pppd and remains in memory, even though it has nothing left to 
do (if $DEMAND is false). this wastes memory. 

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-8.11.1-1

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
ifup ppp0 
   

Actual Results:  $ pstree 
... 
ppp-watch----ifup-ppp-----pppd 

Expected Results:  $ pstree  
...  
ppp-watch----pppd  

Additional info:
Comment 1 Avi Kivity 2005-07-22 11:45:14 UTC 
Created attachment 117050 [details]
reduce persistent process count in ifup-ppp

attached patch execs pppd instead of spawning it if $DEMAND != yes
Comment 2 Miloslav Trmač 2006-04-10 22:53:56 UTC 
Applied in rawhide initscripts-8.32-1.  Thanks!