Patch for dhcpc for immediate backgrounding

[John Kamenik]

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Thanks for the suggestion.

It was easier for me to just patch udhcpc then it was to add setsid  
to the cross-compile environment.  Since I had to patch udhcpc for my  
system anyway I thought I would share it back with the community.



John T. Kamenik (Software Eng.)
jkamenik at patton.com


On Jun 8, 2007, at 3:35 AM, Denis Vlasenko wrote:

> 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 &"?
> --
> vda

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