From owner-freebsd-arch Wed Aug 21 8:41:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 568B037B401 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:41:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (castle.jp.FreeBSD.org [210.226.20.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6838F43E4A for ; Wed, 21 Aug 2002 08:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [::1]) by castle.jp.FreeBSD.org (8.11.6+3.4W/8.11.3) with ESMTP/inet6 id g7LFfe343125; Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:41:41 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org) Cc: arch@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <20020821061822.A56560@iguana.icir.org> References: <20020821074819.GA58163@mithrandr.moria.org> <20020821074819.GA58163@mithrandr.moria.org> <20020821061822.A56560@iguana.icir.org> X-User-Agent: Mew/1.94.2 XEmacs/21.5 (bamboo) X-FaceAnim: (-O_O-)(O_O- )(_O- )(O- )(- -)( -O)( -O_)( -O_O)(-O_O-) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 11 From: Makoto Matsushita To: rizzo@icir.org Subject: Re: ugliness in rc.* scripts Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2002 00:41:37 +0900 Message-Id: <20020822004137T.matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org> Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG rizzo> In any case, we never cared about performance in the rc rizzo> scripts, not spawning processes (e.g. calling scripts with . rizzo> instead of sh) has only to do with letting variable rizzo> assignements be visible in the caller. tr(1) is in /usr/bin, and we can't assume that /usr partition is always available while system startup. -- - Makoto `MAR' Matsushita To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message