From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 23 01:24:21 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB087106566C for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:24:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) Received: from qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DA1E8FC08 for ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:24:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.71]) by qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dC0A1i0021Y3wxoA3DQMbZ; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:24:21 +0000 Received: from damnhippie.dyndns.org ([24.8.232.202]) by omta15.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id dDQL1i0054NgCEG8bDQLlf; Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:24:21 +0000 Received: from [172.22.42.240] (revolution.hippie.lan [172.22.42.240]) by damnhippie.dyndns.org (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id q1N1OI6i005390; Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:24:18 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org) From: Ian Lepore To: Warren Block In-Reply-To: References: <1329938748.21804.8.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <1329949733.1063.6.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:24:18 -0700 Message-ID: <1329960258.1095.4.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.1 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient SYNCDHCP messiness X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:24:21 -0000 On Wed, 2012-02-22 at 17:23 -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 22 Feb 2012, Ian Lepore wrote: > > > First, let me correct myself: I *am* seeing exactly this glitch, I just > > hadn't noticed it until a few minutes ago when I rebooted and looked > > much more closely. > > > > Devd sees the link-up event because it sees all the events that happened > > before it started (for some definition of "all"; there's probably some > > reasonable list-length or buffer size limit somewhere). I rebooted to > > test my vague memory on this... boot into single-user mode and manually > > run /sbin/devd -D and you'll see it processing the buffered events > > before daemonizing. For some reason I had to mount / writeable before > > running devd in single-user or it failed. > > > > I now suspect (but haven't tested to confirm) that this message may be a > > side effect of r226345 which replaced some one-off pidfile logic in > > rc.d/dhclient with use of the standard rc_pid scheme, which is what is > > doing the whining. I think the old one-off code to deal with the > > pidfile avoided whining in the 'quietstart' case. > > Has r226345 been MFCed to 8-stable? I only see it in head. Apparently so, in r231278. Maybe you're not seeing what you expect because there was some glitch with the way the merge was done, which I totally didn't understand when I saw the commit mail and replies -- I'm just starting to learn svn so I didn't get all the implications of that thread. -- Ian