will dynamic dhcpd.conf be supported in future releases

[Mitch Collinsworth]

On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, David W. Hankins wrote:

> For a small number of people who have very large problems, it is
> intriguing to consider that we might make dhcpd process a HUP to:
>
> 	1) Fork and execv dhcpd - continue like nothing's changed.
> 	2) Receive a SIGCHLD when the new dhcpd fork()s (which it
> 	   will do after reading dhcpd.conf and dhcpd.leases).
> 	3) Exit.
>
> There is one major complication in such a mechanism.  The child
> daemon MUST have a way to obtain any changes in state between the
> fork and the exit.

Major?  Think of it like a journaled filesystem.  Just before the
fork, start a journal file.  When the parent process exits, the
child reads and processes the journal.  I must be missing something
here...

-Mitch