Should the entire environment passed to dhclient be available to dhclient-script?

[Andrew Pollock]

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 08:44:12AM -0700, Ted Lemon wrote:
> On Sep 14, 2005, at 4:52 AM, Andrew Pollock wrote:
> > Bug or feature?
> 
> Feature.   dhclient builds its own environment before invoking any  
> scripts, so as to avoid the possibility of passing random goo to the  
> client script.   If you want to add something to the script  
> environment, use the -e flag: dhclient ... -e IF_METRIC=1, for example.
> 
> I see that this is not mentioned in the man page.   Sigh.   This  
> would be my fault, not David's.   :'(
> 

Hmm, well, that really breaks the intended functionality in this case :-(

Any chance of a command-line option to override this feature in the future?

regards

Andrew