Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 01:23:32 +0200 From: Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> To: Xin LI <delphij@gmail.com> Cc: Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r335612 - head/sbin/dhclient Message-ID: <20180627232332.GB97785@rincewind.trouble.is> In-Reply-To: <CAGMYy3u_pBg8dogUFmnbkM2o9JvqJ08JV5-6hheVzcUj8dAXzw@mail.gmail.com> References: <201806250129.w5P1Ts5H017125@repo.freebsd.org> <CAGMYy3u_pBg8dogUFmnbkM2o9JvqJ08JV5-6hheVzcUj8dAXzw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 2018-06-25 11:40:48 (-0700), Xin LI wrote: >On Sun, Jun 24, 2018 at 6:30 PM Eitan Adler <eadler@freebsd.org> wrote: >> Author: eadler >> Date: Mon Jun 25 01:29:54 2018 >> New Revision: 335612 >> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/335612 >> >> Log: >> dhclient: recorrect __progname to getprogname() >> >> A more correct way to modernize code that uses __progname is to just >> replace each occurance of it with a call to getprogname(3) > >We should probably take a look at dhcpcd or ISC dhclient and teach >whatever we have chosen sandbox, etc. The current FreeBSD dhclient is >based on an ancient ISC dhclient fork with enhancements from OpenBSD >(but not being kept up-to-date with OpenBSD) and do not support IPv6, >etc. The IPv6 support in ISC dhclient is basically having dhclient and dhclient6, which is a real pain to configure. NetBSD's dhcpcd is probably the best DHCP client these days in terms of completeness. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information
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