[BusyBox] ifup, ifdown applets
Wolfgang Denk
wd at denx.de
Mon Nov 18 05:44:58 UTC 2002
In message <20021118233354.591a9b95.bug1 at optushome.com.au> you wrote:
>
> Im not sure how important the pid file is, i assume its used for something
> :)
> I noticed that the current ifupdown also writes to /etc/network/ifstate
> which i think is pretty nasty, e.g. too bad if you want to mount root ro,
> i think it should write to /var/somewhere.
It should not write anywhere without need to do so. And you can find
the state of a network interface from the /proc filesystem.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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