[pkg-fso-maint] Bug#520925: wicd: uses killall without depending on psmisc

[David Paleino]

On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:47:23 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:

> Ciao Davide!

Already corrected on this, *g* ;)

> Just to be sure, please keep the pkg-fso-maint@ cc:ed, TIA.

Done.

> On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:13:23 +0100, David Paleino wrote:
> > On Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:45:36 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> >> Instead, since AFAIK all DHCP clients wicd can use (including udhcpc
> >> once bug #520014 will be fixed) support a "write the PID to a file"
> >> option, the best solution would be to check for the existence of such a
> >> PID file (usually /var/run/$PROGRAM.$IFACE.pid) and then kill this
> >> specific process.
> >
> > I'm using dhclient (from dhcp3-client), and the pidfile
> > is /var/run/dhclient.pid :).
> 
> Sorry, I should have been more verbose: wicd does not set any
> interface-specific pidfile, while the Debian ifupdown package does, on
> my laptop (stripped out the useless information)
> =====
> luca at gismo:~$ ps aux | grep wlan0
> root      3032 [...] /sbin/wpa_supplicant -B
> -P /var/run/wpa_supplicant.wlan0.pid -i [...] root      3436 [...] dhclient3
> -pf /var/run/dhclient.wlan0.pid -lf [...] luca at gismo:~$
> =====

Ah, ok. I was clearly missing this.

> [..]
> >> I would like to find some consensus on this solution before starting to
> >> implement it ;-)
> >
> > What solution? :)
> > The best solution to me seems killing the pid written in the proper
> > pidfile by wicd.
> 
> Exactly: but this requires implementing it directly in wicd.

I'm going to talk with upstream on IRC _now_.

> > However, I'm kind of delaying wicd bugfixing waiting the 1.6 release.
> 
> I will check the 1.6 codebase and report back my tests.  Moreover, I
> would also say that if upstream comes up with another solution, we
> should avoid diverging from it.

I'll report back the discussion here.

Ciao,
David

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