The following reply was made to PR bin/33823; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Chapman Flack <chap@anastigmatix.net>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: bin/33823: wpa_supplicant -w broken
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2006 18:29:02 -0400

 Martin Husemann wrote:
 >  Not commenting on the other issues brought up here - the FreeBSD workaround
 >  works pretty easily with NetBSD too, just s/devd/ifwatchd/.
 
 It should be remembered though that the possibility of running one
 supplicant process to manage more than one interface is also part of
 wpa_supplicant's documented design. So is the possibility of having
 wpa_cli or wpa_gui persistently connected to the daemon to query status,
 list available interfaces and scan results, and tell it what to do. That
 starts to get messy once you get into killing and restarting supplicants
 from some other daemon's event scripts.
 
 -Chap