Re: dhcpcd-4.0.0-alpha1 ready for review

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb%cs.columbia.edu@localhost>]

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:03:08 +0100
Roy Marples <roy%marples.name@localhost> wrote:

> On Thursday 17 April 2008 04:58:49 Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> > I haven't had a chance to look at this.  However -- one suggestion I
> > made about dhclient that might be worth doing here: have a
> > directory of scripts, with one script per function.  That makes it
> > easier to change one or two, rather than having to edit a large
> > file and track changes to it.
> 
> What sort of "function" did you have in mind?
> script per $reason?
> script for ntp, resolv, nis, hostname, etc?
> 

Yes...

More seriously -- I look at it functionally: what is a user likely to
want to change?  You may do some stuff per $reason; you're more likely
to do stuff per area (ntp, resolv, etc.).


                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb