Re: hotplugging /e/n/i "auto" interfaces
Per Olofsson <pelle@dsv.su.se> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 21:38 +0100, J.D. Hood wrote:
> > The locking that ifupdown does (to serialize running instances) is
> > what guarantees that there will be deadlock whenever "ifup ethx"
> > leads to another "ifup ethx".
>
> Yes, of course. Sorry. Okay, then this is a problem. Could hotplug
> perhaps check if the interface is being brought up and abort in that
> case?
Hotplug could do that. Or ifupdown could be modified so it didn't
deadlock if called from itself.
However, until these features are added to hotplug or ifupdown, it
is a bad idea (risks deadlock) to ifup interfaces that hotplug can
also ifup.
--
Thomas Hood
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