dhclient exiting without releasing?

[David W. Hankins]

On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:26:49PM +1000, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> There is some interest in the Debian userbase for dhclient be able to exit
> without releasing its lease, but still run its stop hooks:
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/282740
> http://bugs.debian.org/196865
> http://bugs.debian.org/247812
> 
> One user has submitted a patch, which I'm yet to look at closely.
> 
> http://bugs.debian.org/295064
> 
> What do people think about this?

This is a fine thing.  At first glance that patch looks pretty close to
right to me (I'd rather the -r and -x options emitted an error about
being mutually exclusive, and the choice to daemonize is questionable
(particularly if this is going to be used at shutdown).

I'll queue it for 3.1.0.

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