Bang Jun-Young wrote
> 
> There's no difference between variants of U*ix. Free/Open/NetBSD and even 
> Linux use the same pppd which always creates ppp?.pid files in /var/run.
> So above case statement should't be there. And, even if pppd is allowed 
> to write to /etc/ppp, it's a wrong idea to create temporary files in the
> directory in which configuration files are placed.

I totally agree with you, but one can't speak for other platforms
other than NetBSD when submitting a patch to the author of the
program/package.

cheerio Berndt
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