gsliepen/tinc — pull request #17 by dechamps (2014-06-22 10:50:55+00:00)
Title: Add on-the-fly device setup

This adds a new `DevicePersistent` option; when it is enabled (the default), behavior is unchanged. If it is disabled, the device will not be set up during tinc initialization, but will instead be deferred until the first connection is established, and it will be closed as soon as the last connection is terminated. This includes `tinc-up` and `tinc-down` calls.

This is useful because it means the device won't be set up until we are fairly sure there is something listening on the other side. This is more user-friendly, as one can check on the status of the tinc network connection just by checking the status of the network interface. Besides, it prevents the OS from thinking it is connected to some network when it is in fact completely isolated, a useful behavior especially on Windows.

This pull request also contains some device close cleanup improvements meant to improve consistency and ease debugging.