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

Russ Dill Russ.Dill at asu.edu
Sun Jan 30 20:32:32 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 10:53 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
>  > > 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.
>  > 
>  > Wouldn't it just be much easier then to start udhcpd from an init.d
>  > style script?
>  > 
> 
> i'm surprised at the pushback being given to this trivial feature --
> one which may help increase overall reliability of an embedded
> system.  it sounds like people think that if dhcp dies, perhaps
> because of a latent bug in its underlying libraries, that it's
> really better that it stay dead rather than be restarted.  it's
> all very well to say "the bug should be fixed", but in the
> meantime someone's little embedded box on a shelf somewhere isn't
> functioning correctly, and is waiting for them to power-cycle it.


How about a patch that gives optional (compile time) proper getopt
support to udhcpd.



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