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

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Saturday 18 December 2004 23:47, Rob Landley wrote:
> On Saturday 18 December 2004 11:36 am, Doug Kehn wrote:
> 
> > Just because I've never observed udhcpd crash doesn't
> > mean that it never has or never will.
> 
> The same logic could be applied to the init, or to the kernel, or the hardware 
> overheating, or a hard drive crash...
> 
> You're providing code to defend against a non-problem so that if it did out of 
> the blue start to happen, you could band-aid it instead of fixing it.  This 
> kind of defensive programming sort of defeats the purpose of busybox, doesn't 
> it?

You totally overlook the fact that people may want foreground udhcp for
reasons *other* than auto-restatrting.
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vda