Re: ppp's ip-{up,down} and possible utilization of 'run-parts'

[Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>]

Philip Hands <phil@hands.com> writes:

> If people really think it is necesary I can add:
> 
>   PPP_TTYNAME=`/usr/bin/basename "$2"`

I think this is a bad idea.  Anyone who wants to do this, can, and
throwing away information in situations like this is usually a bad
idea.

Consider this (obviouly contrived) example.  Say I decide for some
really strange reason to symlink a device file into my home directory:

  (cd ~/mydev && ln -s /dev/ttyS0 .)

With the "basename" approach, you *completely* lose the ability to
distinguish

  pppd /dev/ttyS0

and

  pppd /home/rlb/mydev/ttyS0

Note, that I'm not saying that I can come up with a good argument why
it would be important to be able to make this distinction (or to even
do what I'm depicting in the example), but I am saying that since I
can't prove to myself that the exact arguement used to invoke pppd
will *never* be crucial, you shouldn't mangle it.

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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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