The rc.d mess strikes back

[Mike Telahun Makonnen]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Brooks Davis <brooks at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I don't have much time to debug this, but I've not had problems with
> services starting too early on the systems I've been running with async
> dhcp.  If there is a problem with the wait process we need to actually
> debug it.  If the wait for a route/running interface isn't sufficent we
> should try to figure out what is.  Synchronous dhcp sucks and yeilds
> justifed user complaints so it would be nice to kill it off.  I switched
> the default because it worked for me and I hoped that people would help
> find and fix edge cases.

Can you elaborate why synchronous DHCP sucks ?

>
> BTW, the change to background by default still doesn't make sense to
> me.  At best it shouldn't do anything useful in the async case and it
> entierly defeats the sync case.
>

Yeah, I realized this as soon as people started complaining about the
changes and reverting that commit didn't fix their problem. I'll back
it out.

Cheers,
Mike.