On Mon, 2008-01-28 at 10:57 +0000, John Carr wrote: > > OK, I have to agree that dhclient is quite within any distro core yes. But > > one other thing mentioned was a dbus controlled dhclient. The problem with > > that is that it is already less core. Furthermore, I can remember that it > > was you that was telling sometime that you don't like a lot of daemons > > running all of the time (which my guess is this program would be ;) ) > > > > I could look into calling the dhclient, or even adding the dbus > > functionality-enabled dhclient to it. I will take a look at this either > > this afternoon, or tomorrow. > > > > I have to say that I like using a d-bus controlled dhclient more than > > calling another executable from within the odccm binary. > > I'm against dhcdbd, if NetworkManager has stopped using it [1] [2] > then it must suck... >
Interesting, yes I'd say that rules out dhcdbd. Be nice to find out what the problem was, and maybe how they now do it. > The HAL callout parsing dhclient output wouldnt involve a daemon, > other than hal-dccm which would be started by it. Directly parsing the > output of dhclient from a python HAL callout seems easy, and while its > not the nicest thing I think it might be useful for non SynCE devices > too. (I'm sure i've seen at least one other non-SynCE device that > needs DHCPing before it will work..) > While I think this could still be a pain, I can't see any problem with going with it to start with and see how it goes. This is a hal solution of course. Odccm needs a different solution until everyone is happy with hal. As a short term solution in odccm I'd say calling dhclient is the easy answer, except for parsing its output using C, which would probably result in a dependency on a regex lib. Dont know. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ SynCE-Devel mailing list SynCE-Devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/synce-devel
