Comment 72 for bug 1073433

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Steve Langasek (vorlon) wrote : Re: [Bug 1073433] Re: Ext4 corruption associated with shutdown of Ubuntu 12.10

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 08:32:14AM -0000, Bernd Schubert wrote:

> Well, network usually does not break by killing dhclient,

Irrelevant. The dhclient process is managed by NM, and sendsigs must not
interfere with it.

> If we don't want to ignore the lease race and we don't trust NM to kill
> sub-processes

We *require* NM to clean up its subprocesses. This is the only sane
architecture. If NM is not doing so, that's a bug in NM.

> we need a to run killall5 a 2nd time

No.