PATCH: ifupdown.c, udhcpc, and standalone shell

Denis Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Sep 27 23:32:36 UTC 2006


On Wednesday 27 September 2006 17:21, Gabriel L. Somlo wrote:
> Denis,
> 
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +0200, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> > be scriptable. As I said, I use runit - which is.
> 
> Is busybox going to include a version of runit, eventually ? I looked
> and there doesn't seem to be one in there already...

It can be added, I have a patchset for that. But I want to convince
Rob first....

> > How do you propose to cleanly check that execute("foo bar baz");
> > will be able to find and execute foo executable - without actually
> > trying to execute it? "if /sbin/foo exists" is not a good check.
> 
> ifupdown uses /etc/network/interfaces as its config file (which
> interfaces to bring up, and how). I guess we could add options for
> dhcp interfaces that specify which dhcp client to look for, so
> ifupdown won't have to poll for a hard-coded list of clients...

Maybe. Let's hear what users of "official" package will say.
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vda



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