Restarting DHCP safely whilst avoiding partner-down state

[Terry Burton]

On 13 May 2016 at 19:26, Simon Hobson <dhcp1 at thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
> Chuck Anderson <cra at WPI.EDU> wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to signal dhcpd to write out the lease file so it can
>> be checked?
>
> Surely a simple change would be to not act on a normal kill signal in the middle of a lease file write ? Capture that the signal arrived, and act on it as soon as the complete lease has been written.
> That one change alone would completely remove the "wrote half a lease to the file" issue.

I couldn't agree more...