The rc.d mess strikes back

[Garrett Cooper]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:12 PM, Mike Telahun Makonnen
<mmakonnen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
>>
>> I don't have much time to debug this, but I've not had problems with
>> services starting too early on the systems I've been running with async
>> dhcp.  If there is a problem with the wait process we need to actually
>> debug it.  If the wait for a route/running interface isn't sufficent we
>> should try to figure out what is.  Synchronous dhcp sucks and yeilds
>> justifed user complaints so it would be nice to kill it off.  I switched
>> the default because it worked for me and I hoped that people would help
>> find and fix edge cases.
>
> Can you elaborate why synchronous DHCP sucks ?

The only reason I could see is bringup time. Am I correct in this assumption?

>>
>> BTW, the change to background by default still doesn't make sense to
>> me.  At best it shouldn't do anything useful in the async case and it
>> entierly defeats the sync case.
>>
>
> Yeah, I realized this as soon as people started complaining about the
> changes and reverting that commit didn't fix their problem. I'll back
> it out.

Thanks :),
-Garrett