dhcpcd-discuss

On 27/05/2014 10:55, Jouke Witteveen wrote:
> > > Would netctl be happy with this?
> > >
> > > dhcpcd --per-protocol -4 eth0
> > > dhcpcd --per-protocol -6 eth0
> > >
> > > dhcpcd --per-protocol -4 -x eth0
> > > dhcpcd --per-protocol -6 -x eth0
> > >
> > > Would create the pidfiles:
> > > /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.pid
> > > /var/run/dhcpcd-eth0.6.pid
> > >
> > > That would be fairly trivial to implement.
> > > Let me know
> >
> > That would be very nice!
> >
> > What would happen in this case?
> >
> > dhcpcd --per-protocol -4 eth0
> > dhcpcd --per-protocol -6 eth0
> > dhcpcd -x eth0
> >
> > I'd say it would be best to either kill both or kill none and error.
> > This is not relevant for netctl, but could be relevant for someone
> > else out there.
>
> I still like the idea of having --per-protocol. Here's some more 
> thoughts.
> `dhcpcd --per-protocol eth0` should probably be equivalent to `dhcpcd
> --per-protocol -4 eth0; dhcpcd --per-protocol -6 eth0`, which suggests
> we could have `dhcpcd --per-protocol -x eth0`, killing both instances.
> In that case `dhcpcd -x eth0` should probably do nothing and error.
> Equivalently, this means when we started dhcpcd using simply `dhcpcd
> eth0`, that attempting `dhcpcd --per-protocol -x eth0` should do
> nothing and error.

I've been thinking that maybe we're over thinking this and drop the 
--per-protocol idea to make -4 and -6 protocol exclusive anyway.

Thoughts?

Roy