will dynamic dhcpd.conf be supported in future releases
David W. Hankins
David_Hankins at isc.org
Fri Aug 11 17:03:11 UTC 2006
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:48:55AM +0200, Shane Kerr wrote:
> If this is your concern, you might be better of writing a wrapper script and
> running dhcpd in non-daemon mode. Something like this:
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.
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