Re: The rc.d mess strikes back

From: Mike Telahun Makonnen <mmakonnen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:12:49 +0300
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I don't have much time to debug this, but I've not had problems with
> services starting too early on the systems I've been running with async
> dhcp.  If there is a problem with the wait process we need to actually
> debug it.  If the wait for a route/running interface isn't sufficent we
> should try to figure out what is.  Synchronous dhcp sucks and yeilds
> justifed user complaints so it would be nice to kill it off.  I switched
> the default because it worked for me and I hoped that people would help
> find and fix edge cases.

Can you elaborate why synchronous DHCP sucks ?

>
> BTW, the change to background by default still doesn't make sense to
> me.  At best it shouldn't do anything useful in the async case and it
> entierly defeats the sync case.
>

Yeah, I realized this as soon as people started complaining about the
changes and reverting that commit didn't fix their problem. I'll back
it out.

Cheers,
Mike.
Received on Wed Mar 04 2009 - 05:12:51 UTC

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