Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:01:07 -0700 (PDT) From: Nick Hibma <n_hibma@qubesoft.com> To: Chris Dillon <cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc usbd.conf Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0010161200410.13415-100000@henny.webweaving.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.20.0010161155400.13374-100000@henny.webweaving.org>
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This won't work as ${DEVNAME} is invalid on detach, so you won't be able
to get at the interface. :-(
The proper solution would be the make dhclient aware of interfaces that
disappear. Once the interface has disappeared it should terminate.
This would make things work for pccard as well.
Nick
> That reminds me... attached is a patch for usbd.conf that will do
> away with the nasty "killall dhclient" on detach of a USB ethernet
> interface. I don't have a way to actually test this patch, but it
> is simple enough that I don't think I screwed anything up. I just
> know someone is going to get bit by this in the future if it isn't
> fixed. :-)
>
> We might want to be real careful anywhere else we use "killall", as
> well.
>
> I'll paste it here, in addition to the attachment, for good measure:
>
> --- usbd.conf Mon Oct 16 13:09:00 2000
> +++ usbd.conf.old Mon Oct 16 13:11:19 2000
> @@ -28,8 +28,8 @@
> #
> device "USB ethernet"
> devname "[ack]ue[0-9]+"
> - attach "dhclient ${DEVNAME}"
> - detach "killall dhclient"
> + attach "dhclient -pf /var/run/dhclient.${DEVNAME}.pid ${DEVNAME}"
> + detach "kill `cat /var/run/dhclient.${DEVNAME}.pid`"
>
> # The entry below starts moused when a mouse is plugged in. Moused
> # stops automatically (actually it bombs :) when the device disappears.
>
>
>
> -- Chris Dillon - cdillon@wolves.k12.mo.us - cdillon@inter-linc.net
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