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From:
Crystal Kolipe <kolipe.c@exoticsilicon.com>
Subject:
Re: Diff: Minor Improvement to Sentence
To:
Andrew Christopher Hawk <andrew.hawk@blackburn.edu>
Cc:
tech@openbsd.org
Date:
Thu, 08 Aug 2024 02:42:29 -0300

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On Thu, Aug 08, 2024 at 05:18:41AM +0000, Andrew Christopher Hawk wrote:
> I was checking out dhcpleased(8)'s manual page, and a certain sentence
> had me bugging out a bit, so I tried to fix up the sentence in
> question.

Whilst I agree that the wording could be improved, by adding:

> +and uses any such information to configure interfaces on which the

... you are actually slightly changing the meaning, and introducing the
implication that dhcpleased itself is responsible for all of the interface
configuration via DHCP.

However, by way of example, when nameservers are configured via DHCP,
dhcpleased passes details of those nameservers to resolvd, which needs to
be running for those proposals to be added to resolv.conf.

So this documentation change needs a bit more thought.