dhcpcd-discuss

dhcpcd is spawning new instances rather than using already running instance

Davesh Patel

Thu Jul 16 11:53:12 2020

Hi -

In Android, I'm using dhcpcd-6.8.2 at the command line (adb shell).
(Actually, I'm using system() call in code but the same thing happens).

I have an instance of dhcpcd already running and I want to rebind (my goal
is to trigger DHCP discover, etc). If I send dhcpcd --rebind it starts a
new instance instead of causing the existing instance to rebind.

How do I act on the existing, running instance of dhcpcd rather than start
a new instance?

Perhaps I am misunderstanding how dhcpcd works?

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