How to run a helper script on state changes?

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 6:21 PM, Jouni Malinen <j at w1.fi> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 07, 2014 at 03:55:12PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> I read "man wpa_supplicant" and "man wpa_supplicant.conf"
>> and I don't see such functionality mentioned anywhere.
>> Did I miss it?
>
> wpa_supplicant/README and the "Using wpa_cli to run external program on
> connect/disconnect" section.

Thanks, found it.

Looks like a round-about way to achieve it, though:
it needs enabled "ctrl_interface" thing in wpa_supplicant.conf,
it needs a running wpa_cli process all the time,
and since wpa_cli exits if wpa_supplicant is restarted:

  # wpa_cli -a /qwe/rty
  Selected interface 'wlan0'
  wpa_supplicant is terminating - stop monitoring
  # _

it also needs a process to babysit wpa_cli.

Any chances wpa_supplicant can be taught to launch
a script by itself, avoiding the need to have an extra process?
As in: would you accept a patch which implements
such a feature?

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vda