'(c)' may not be a valid substitute for 'Copyright' in some legal
domains/interpretations. So be safe, since I obviously am asserting
copyright on my legal work.
This corrects a bug where stale dhcp packets would get reprocessed,
causing very bad behavior; an issue that was introduced in the
coroutine conversion.
Linux will quietly proceed as if the data were sent even if the carrier
is down and nothing actually happened. There is still a tiny race
condition where the carrier could drop between the check and the actual
write, but we really can't do anything about that and it is a very
small race.