Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 09:12:49 +0300 From: Mike Telahun Makonnen <mmakonnen@gmail.com> To: Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> Cc: andrew-freebsd@areilly.bpc-users.org, astrodog@gmail.com, usb@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, yanefbsd@gmail.com, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: The rc.d mess strikes back Message-ID: <584bfc3f0903032212x25831c5bi35d9b637c1896e1d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090303180307.GA11134@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> References: <2fd864e0903020512i22b2c31fg487aaf37fed6398b@mail.gmail.com> <20090302.132522.-432836388.imp@bsdimp.com> <20090302233215.GA53763@duncan.reilly.home> <20090302.181513.1973603215.imp@bsdimp.com> <584bfc3f0903030833k70405609q7e2d3b28c8cf4c29@mail.gmail.com> <20090303180307.GA11134@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org> wrote: > > I don't have much time to debug this, but I've not had problems with > services starting too early on the systems I've been running with async > dhcp. If there is a problem with the wait process we need to actually > debug it. If the wait for a route/running interface isn't sufficent we > should try to figure out what is. Synchronous dhcp sucks and yeilds > justifed user complaints so it would be nice to kill it off. I switched > the default because it worked for me and I hoped that people would help > find and fix edge cases. Can you elaborate why synchronous DHCP sucks ? > > BTW, the change to background by default still doesn't make sense to > me. At best it shouldn't do anything useful in the async case and it > entierly defeats the sync case. > Yeah, I realized this as soon as people started complaining about the changes and reverting that commit didn't fix their problem. I'll back it out. Cheers, Mike.home | help
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