[BusyBox] udhp/dhcpd.c (lost/rejected) patch

[Russ Dill]

> > Have you run into instances of udhcpd crashing?
> > 
> 
> No, I have not.
> 
> How I came across this was that I blindly added udhcp
> to inittab with the respawn action.  I observed that
> init was logging respawn too fast messages to syslog
> for udhcpd.  I then looked at the code and saw that
> udhcpd called daemon().  I then discovered the
> foreground patch by 'vda'.  I thought about not using
> this patch and going with the wait or once inittab
> actions but other BusyBox utilities (e.g. syslogd,
> klogd) have foreground options.  Thus, I decided to
> try the patch.  I've been running with the patch for
> several weeks without issue.  At this point I decided 
> to repost vda's patch.
> 
> Even though I've never observed udhcpd crashing, this
> patch affords the comfort of knowing that init will
> respawn udhcpd if this unlikely event does occur.
> 
> Regards,
> ...doug

Wouldn't it just be much easier then to start udhcpd from an init.d
style script?