On Tue 25 Mar 2014 03:02:19 PM CDT, Theo de Raadt wrote:
[...] the fact there is two process may also explain why
there is no pidfile. One is root he other dropped privilege, all of
this is just giving me a headache at the moment.
Based on 5.4-RELEASE, then, since I agree the situation is confusing:
--- dhclient.8 Sun Jul 21 11:43:44 2013
+++ dhclient.8.new Tue Mar 25 15:07:52 2014
@@ -255,7 +255,9 @@
.Sh SIGNALS
While running,
.Nm
-reacts to a few different signals:
+uses a privilege-separation model, so there will be two processes (one
with
+[priv] in its process title and one without),
+either of which will react to a few different signals:
.Bl -tag -width "USR1, USR2XXX"
.It Dv HUP
On receiving
(I can't find an mdoc(7) equivalent to <PRE> for formatting the
"[priv]" token. Suggestions welcome.)
--
-Adam Thompson
athom...@athompso.net
