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To: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>
Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system 
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Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 12:27:02 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <20010611201243.B77956@laptop.6bone.nl> Mark Santcroos writes:
: Can it be called SysV style? Or not seperated in that way?
: (I must say, the big ugly rc thing is the only thing I don't like about
: FreeBSD, I'm very much in favor of the SysV style init. But thats another
: war ;)

It specifically isn't SysV style.  It works.  SysV style encodes the
startup order in the file NAMES.  The NetBSD rc system encodes it in
the files themselves.  A big improvement.

Warner

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