Bug#393491: [pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#393491: doesn't exit when ifup is cancelled

[Kel Modderman]

On Tuesday 17 October 2006 01:22, martin f krafft wrote:
> Package: wpasupplicant
> Version: 0.5.5-2
> Severity: normal
>
> If I use ifupdown integration, wpa_supplicant starts up nicely as
> expected. It associates with the AP and then dhclient (called by
> ifup) tries to get a lease. However, if I cancel dhclient,
> wpa_supplicant continues to live. It would be nice if wpa_supplicant
> could tie in with ifup in such a way that a non-zero exit code from
> dhclient (or whatever other configuration method is being used)
> would kill wpa_supplicant as well.

This smells and sounds like a feature request for ifupdown, as there is no way 
to tell if ifupdown has failed at some stage, because it returns no signal to 
existing children, or even scripts waiting to be called.

Perhaps this request should be reassigned to ifupdown package?

Thanks, Kel.