status update: events working, first methods implemented; generally happy
Jörg Sommer
joerg at alea.gnuu.de
Wed Jun 20 21:57:02 UTC 2007
Hallo martin,
martin f krafft <madduck at debian.org> wrote:
> also sprach Jörg Sommer <joerg at alea.gnuu.de> [2007.06.20.1349 +0100]:
>> What happens with the DHCP provider? Does it alive? Who cares about
>> renewing the lease after lease time is over?
>
> netconf spawns a thread which execvp()'s dhclient in foreground
> mode. Thus, dhclient will continue to run until netconf kills it,
> and renew leases and so on. Whenever something substantial happens,
> such as failing to renew the lease, the dhclient handler thread will
> queue an event so that netconf can react.
This sound good, really good.
Jörg.
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