[SOLVED] dhcpcd exits with no daemon process ... but still works

This is in the newbie corner as I'm baffled by this and not even well enough informed to know where to gather information.
Very recently the behavior of dhcpcd changed. Previously, it would daemonize and remain in the background: it would show up in pstree and pgrep output. Now, it still works perfectly, but after it runs, it seems to fully exit without leaving a daemon process - or at least not one that shows up in pstree or pgrep output.
There is no actual problem here, but I'd like to learn about this change if anyone can enlighten me.
Last edited by Trilby (2015-04-25 16:21:29)

I do not (intentionally) use systemd-networkd, and it is not running.
$ pacman -Q dhcpcd
dhcpcd 6.8.1-1
$ systemctl status dhcpcd
● dhcpcd.service - dhcpcd on all interfaces
Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/dhcpcd.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
I don't use the dhcpcd service - I just envoke it manually. I'll double check in a moment, but I don't believe I have a connection until I run dhcpcd on my wireless interface (after wpa_supplicant).
So it seems I do need to explicitly run dhcpcd, but I can kill it after it connects, and my connection remains:
# no connection and no active services at start
$ sudo wpa_supplicant -B -i wls1 -c /usr/share/swifer/NETGEAR10
Successfully initialized wpa_supplicant
$ pgrep dhcpcd
$ ping google.com
ping: unknown host google.com
$ sudo dhcpcd wls1
DUID 00:01:00:01:1a:3c:f0:eb:00:26:c6:c9:40:0c
wls1: IAID 6a:76:c9:30
wls1: soliciting an IPv6 router
wls1: rebinding lease of 192.168.1.76
wls1: leased 192.168.1.76 for 86400 seconds
wls1: changing route to 192.168.1.0/24
wls1: changing default route via 192.168.1.1
forked to background, child pid 806
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.21.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from yv-in-f101.1e100.net (74.125.21.101): icmp_seq=1 ttl=36 time=46.3 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 46.315/46.315/46.315/0.000 ms
$ pgrep dhcpcd
806
$ sudo killall dhcpcd
$ pgrep dhcpcd
$ ping google.com
PING google.com (74.125.21.101) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from yv-in-f101.1e100.net (74.125.21.101): icmp_seq=1 ttl=36 time=128 ms
64 bytes from yv-in-f101.1e100.net (74.125.21.101): icmp_seq=2 ttl=36 time=100 ms
64 bytes from yv-in-f101.1e100.net (74.125.21.101): icmp_seq=3 ttl=36 time=53.0 ms
64 bytes from yv-in-f101.1e100.net (74.125.21.101): icmp_seq=4 ttl=36 time=47.0 ms
q64 bytes from yv-in-f101.1e100.net (74.125.21.101): icmp_seq=5 ttl=36 time=48.3 ms
^C
--- google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4007ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 47.073/75.519/128.444/33.126 ms
While this time it seems I had to kill dhcpcd myself. But just the same, it is no longer running, yet my connection stays up.

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