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Date:      Mon, 5 Dec 2005 10:37:30 +0000
From:      Ceri Davies <ceri@submonkey.net>
To:        Doug Barton <dougb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/etc rc.subr
Message-ID:  <20051205103730.GD51395@submonkey.net>
In-Reply-To: <43940A83.5090506@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200512050704.jB574FeY098280@repoman.freebsd.org> <20051205093038.GC51395@submonkey.net> <43940A83.5090506@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 01:38:11AM -0800, Doug Barton wrote:
> Ceri Davies wrote:
> >On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 07:04:15AM +0000, Doug Barton wrote:
> >>dougb       2005-12-05 07:04:15 UTC
> >>
> >>  FreeBSD src repository
> >>
> >>  Modified files:
> >>    etc                  rc.subr=20
> >>  Log:
> >>  Change how *.sh scripts are handled. If the script is in /etc/rc.d,
> >>  source it into the shell. If not, handle it in a subshell the same
> >>  way that "real" rc.d-style scripts are handled. This will dramatically
> >>  ease the "process local scripts in the base rcorder" transition.
> >
> >Are you planning to do this for /usr/local/etc/rc.d as well?=20
>=20
> For the purposes of the new world order (other than sourcing /etc/rc.d/*.=
sh=20
> into the shell), scripts in /etc/rc.d/ and ${local_startup}/rc.d are=20
> handled the same way.

Ok, it's the sourcing that I was worried about.

> >I often
> >take the execute bit off old-rc type scripts in there to disable them,
> >and that would obviously become a problem should this get applied there
> >too.
>=20
> Not obvious at all. :) If there is no execute bit on the script, it will=
=20
> not get run, no matter where it resides.

Sure.  Sourcing is a different matter though.

Ceri
--=20
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm
not sure about the former.			  -- Einstein (attrib.)

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