* Stefan Sperling <[email protected]> [2011-08-16 17:06]:
> Todd raised the question of what happens when support for the script
> goes away. Not sure if that matters now. We can still revisit this
> problem when script support is removed.

wait. my (and ifaik that is also where krw's wish comes from) desire
to replace the script comes from the routehandler. dhclient exits when
something else sets an address on the interface in question. right now
we have a hack there. if dhclient itself set the address its pid would
show up in the message on the route socket and we could easily ignore
those. right now it is the pid of the ifconfig process spawned by the
script. and dhclient doesn't know that pid.
so the idea is to have dhclient set the address itself instead of
having the script do it. just that task. not everything else the
script does. aka the script stays, just not setting the address any
more. 

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