435220 – net-misc/dhcpcd: start in the background

Bug 435220 - net-misc/dhcpcd: start in the background

Summary: net-misc/dhcpcd: start in the background

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] Core system (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal
Assignee:	William Hubbs

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Keywords:	PATCH

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Reported:	2012-09-16 15:46 UTC by Arvydas Sidorenko
Modified:	2012-09-24 17:10 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Patch (dhcpcd.initd.patch,368 bytes, patch) 2012-09-16 15:46 UTC, Arvydas Sidorenko	Details \| Diff
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Description Arvydas Sidorenko 2012-09-16 15:46:52 UTC

Created attachment 324016 [details, diff]
Patch

Why not making dhcpcd start in the background? In some cases it can increase boot time twice.

Comment 1 Arvydas Sidorenko 2012-09-16 17:09:04 UTC

Apparently my patch is a little wrong since ${command} sometimes is concatenated with args and '&' in the middle breaks the script.
But that doesn't change the initial idea. Can we do it?

Comment 2 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-09-17 18:14:12 UTC

i don't think so.  better to use the standard network scripts, or use things in parallel.

Comment 3 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2012-09-17 19:17:10 UTC

To make this happen, you can put

background

on a line in /etc/dhcpcd.conf.

Comment 4 Arvydas Sidorenko 2012-09-23 21:59:09 UTC

Thanks William. Why it is not set by default?

Comment 5 William Hubbs gentoo-dev

2012-09-24 17:10:12 UTC

It is if dhcpcd is controling more than one interface. If it is
controling only one interface and fails to get an address for it when
ipv4ll is turned off, the daemon fails to start.