Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:24:18 -0700 From: Ian Lepore <freebsd@damnhippie.dyndns.org> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dhclient SYNCDHCP messiness Message-ID: <1329960258.1095.4.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202221701490.80831@wonkity.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202220923030.77675@wonkity.com> <1329938748.21804.8.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202221348360.79830@wonkity.com> <1329949733.1063.6.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1202221701490.80831@wonkity.com>
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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
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