Patch for dhcpc for immediate backgrounding

[Denis Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 05 June 2007 17:35, John Kamenik wrote:
> All,
> 
> I have patched the 1.00 version of BusyBox's DHCP Client to add the  
> option to Daemonize at start.  I took a quick look at the 1.6 version  
> of BusyBox and it looks like the change could be easily applied to  
> it.  I unfortunately do not use 1.6 and do not have time to patch it  
> myself.
> 
> The patch simply adds a "-B" option which will cause the udhcpc  
> program to background immediately.  It does NOT replace the "-b"  
> which causes udhcpc to background after it attempts to get a lease.   
> I added it so I do not have to block waiting for the first lease  
> attempt, which can take a decent amount of time if there is no DHCP  
> server to contact.

What about using "setsid udhcpcd >/dev/null 2>/dev/null </dev/null &"?
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