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ifupdown package

  1. Bug #1337873
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 1337873

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Rafael David Tinoco (rafaeldtinoco) wrote : Re: Precise, Trusty, Utopic - ifupdown initialization problems caused by race condition

After talking to Stéphane Graber, from Ubuntu Core Foundations Team, we decided that I should implement independent locking for every interface (like I have already proposed to Debian upstream project) and to implement locking mechanisms for dependent interfaces inside the hooks.

So:

1) ifupdown would lock every given interface (or all if "-a" is given).

2) locking for child interfaces (slaves for bonding, attached to bridges, ...) is going to be done inside hooks. Today most important hooks for ifupdown are: bridging, vlan and bonding. I have to guarantee those 3 are ok with any change made to ifupdown tool.

* wait for next comments/patches/actions.