Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 11:03:40 -0600 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@FreeBSD.org> To: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@FreeBSD.org> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r230007 - in head: etc etc/rc.d share/man/man8 Message-ID: <20120120170340.GD87047@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> In-Reply-To: <7dcvawMgnE9O34bJ7H3SrdYasTs@HbohoBmewgxm0atwUoKO7zhAAgw> References: <201201120648.q0C6mBio096662@svn.freebsd.org> <201201120748.28564.jhb@freebsd.org> <bCcADqQ22Kp59BPLumFhZYufHcU@ANORtGr6dAnYSfiXGMG9rSWyV%2Bw> <201201121438.16674.jhb@freebsd.org> <g1EPx5ZQC20YwBTAuDerf6U7LFc@gTyb322ruC8B7JPI6PUQyZ3XWfA> <20120119172759.GC60214@lor.one-eyed-alien.net> <7dcvawMgnE9O34bJ7H3SrdYasTs@HbohoBmewgxm0atwUoKO7zhAAgw>
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--xB0nW4MQa6jZONgY Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:06:02PM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote: > Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:27:59AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote: > > Arguably it should be moved to /libexec since it's not an rc.d > > script and simply uses the framework because it had similar needs >=20 > Well, I fear that some user scripts may rely on the dhclient path > to be /etc/rc.d/dhclient, so such a change could lead to the POLA > violation. So, all pros and cons of such a change should be carefully > weighted. What is the gain from moving it to /libexec apart from > avoiding pollution of /etc/rc.d by non-rc.d scripts? It is a good > thing to have for the clear design, but having dhclient in /etc/rc.d > has no effect on the boot process, since it is marked 'nostart' and > it allows people to use 'service dhclient restart $if' without hacking > the service to still allow to use this command. We can, of course, > move it to /libexec/rc.d/ and add this path to the local_startup, but > I doubt that this approach will give any real gain, though I can be > missing some important points. That's basically why I didn't move it in the first place. It's clearly in the wrong place, but people will expect it there so there isn't much point in moving it. -- Brooks --xB0nW4MQa6jZONgY Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFPGZ5rXY6L6fI4GtQRAgdiAJ4qj0iTTyE6LoVE560pUjnoFzW9hwCcCErw ce9DsyPJpJC1zAM4vN/99SY= =PCJs -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --xB0nW4MQa6jZONgY--
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