Re: [PATCH] Use SIGKILL to be able to immediately start a new dnsmasq afterwards

[Michael Stapelberg <michael+nm stapelberg de>]

Hi Howard,

Quoting Howard Chu (2012-05-06 17:09:11)
> Killing and restarting dnsmasq each time you need to make a change has all the 
> elegance of a kick in the groin. Problems like this wouldn't exist if you used 
I totally agree, but it’s necessary at the moment to make my system work.

> DBUS to manage dnsmasq.
> 
> If my previous patch is a problem because you don't want to rely on an 
> existing system-provided dnsmasq instance, the obvious solution is to add an 
> option to dnsmasq to have instance-specific DBUS services, not to start/stop 
> your private instance repeatedly every time the network topology changes.
Sounds good. I’m not a NM developer, so I can’t say any more than that :).

Best regards,
Michael