--- contrib/isc-dhcp/client/dhclient.c.orig	Mon Mar 24 00:29:36 2003
+++ contrib/isc-dhcp/client/dhclient.c	Fri May  2 16:08:29 2003
@@ -112,10 +112,8 @@
 	int no_dhclient_pid = 0;
 	int no_dhclient_script = 0;
 	FILE *pidfd;
-	pid_t oldpid;
 	char *s;
 
-	oldpid = 0;
 	/* Make sure we have stdin, stdout and stderr. */
 	i = open ("/dev/null", O_RDWR);
 	if (i == 0)
@@ -259,13 +257,16 @@
 
 	/* first kill of any currently running client */
 	if (release_mode) {
+		long try;
+		pid_t *oldpid;
 
 		if ((pidfd = fopen(path_dhclient_pid, "r")) != NULL) {
-			e = fscanf(pidfd, "%d", &oldpid);
+			e = fscanf(pidfd, "%ld", &try);
+			*oldpid = (pid_t)try;
 
 			if (e != 0 && e != EOF) {
-				if (oldpid) {
-					if (kill(oldpid, SIGKILL) == 0)
+				if (*oldpid) {
+					if (kill(*oldpid, SIGKILL) == 0)
 						unlink(path_dhclient_pid);
 				}
 			}