[BusyBox] udhcpc background immediately

Andrew Victor andrew at sanpeople.com
Thu Sep 11 15:45:04 UTC 2003


hi Larry,

> > This patch adds a '-d' command-line option to udhcpc which will force it
> > to fork to the background immediately at startup.
> 
> Is there a reason you can't, instead, add a "&" to the end
> of its invocation from a shell?

In my case I'm not running udhcpc from a shell.

Adding this option to udhcpc just seemed more efficient to me than
launching a shell-script just to have it fork udhcpc into the
background.


Regards,
  Andrew Victor





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