Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2001 19:24:13 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>, Doug Barton <DougB@DougBarton.net>, bsddiy@163.net, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: import NetBSD rc system Message-ID: <3B25531D.501B0B05@bellatlantic.net> References: <20010611201243.B77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <20010611174717.A77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <1795096378.20010611154930@163.net> <3B2484EA.B1F04812@DougBarton.net> <20010611174717.A77956@laptop.6bone.nl> <200106111800.f5BI0il25446@billy-club.village.org> <200106111827.f5BIR2V38517@harmony.village.org>
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Warner Losh wrote: > > 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. Or a drawback. Encoding the order in the names makes changing the order or disabling some files easy, without any neccessity to edit the contents of the files. Though I haven't seen the NetBSD approach, maybe it actually is better. -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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