On Fri, Oct 27, 2017 at 10:37:55AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 02:26:59AM +0200, Axel Beckert wrote: > > > * dhclient prepares resolv.conf.dhclient-new.$pid not in /etc/ but in > > /tmp/. There it's far less annoying if the directory is cluttered with > > small files and those files would be usually cleaned up at > > reboot. (Disavantage: The renaming is often a move from one file > > system to another -- which might not be wanted.) > > > I think that this is the best solution. Could you explain why you think > that the crossing the filesystem boundary is a disadvantage?
Crossing the filesystem boundary makes the operation not atomic and therefore less desirable. Really I think that both should be fixed. Making the file immutable is a bit rich, and dhclient-script needs to handle the failure better.
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