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-rw-r--r--networking/ifupdown.c5
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/networking/ifupdown.c b/networking/ifupdown.c
index f703a5d87..b2ce2a091 100644
--- a/networking/ifupdown.c
+++ b/networking/ifupdown.c
@@ -555,8 +555,11 @@ static int dhcp_down(struct interface_defn_t *ifd, execfn *exec)
{
int result = 0;
if (execable("/sbin/udhcpc")) {
+ /* SIGUSR2 forces udhcpc to release the current lease and go inactive,
+ * and SIGTERM causes udhcpc to exit. Signals are queued and processed
+ * sequentially so we don't need to sleep */
result = execute("kill -USR2 `cat /var/run/udhcpc.%iface%.pid` 2>/dev/null", ifd, exec);
- result += execute("kill -9 `cat /var/run/udhcpc.%iface%.pid` 2>/dev/null", ifd, exec);
+ result += execute("kill -TERM `cat /var/run/udhcpc.%iface%.pid` 2>/dev/null", ifd, exec);
} else if (execable("/sbin/pump")) {
result = execute("pump -i %iface% -k", ifd, exec);
} else if (execable("/sbin/dhclient")) {