Re: [PATCH] timeout for all modes
Roy Marples
Fri Apr 30 05:42:22 2010
On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 14:21 +0200, Gerd v. Egidy wrote:
> One use (among others) of dhcpcd is to check that there is no other, unwanted
> dhcp daemon listening on the network. To do this, I run dhcpcd in the test
> mode without finally accepting an offered lease.
>
> Without the attached patch, the test mode does not have a working timeout
> which makes my usecase impossible. The patch enables the timeout for all
> modes.
>
> Please consider applying.
I rejected this as it would break other logic.
However, I have allowed test mode to apply the timeout, which should fix
it for you.
Thanks
Roy
Archive administrator: postmaster@marples.name