dhcpcd-discuss

Hi Jonas

On 18/10/2019 10:50, Jonas Ramstrand wrote:
> Hi Roy / list
>
> I have a scenario where I want to use required option, but if I don’t 
> get an ACK after 3 times I want to fallback without –require.____
>
> Now I’m having a timer in my application to check for a valid lease to 
> exit/restart dhcpcd. But I’ve now implemented to check for hook events 
> in my application. So plan is to use --timeout, but I don’t get any 
> hook-events to use when timed out. I see traces: “timed out” and “dhcpcd 
> exited”, but would expect hook-events “STOPPED” and/or “TIMEOUT”.____
>
> Starting with dhcpcd-command “dhcpcd wlan0 --nolink --noipv4ll --timeout 
> 10 --debug --require 43”

Fixed here:
https://roy.marples.name/cgit/dhcpcd.git/commit/?id=12315f84852649f12b79c325e9dc8aed19a4485b

If you intend to restart dhcpcd inside the hook script you'll need to 
fork off a new detached process as dhcpcd will only remove it's lock on 
the pidfile *after* the hook has finished and the dhcpcd process exits.

Roy