Date: Fri, 3 Jan 2003 10:24:22 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner <nbm@mithrandr.moria.org> To: Andrew <andrew@ugh.net.au> Cc: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>, Miguel Mendez <flynn@energyhq.homeip.net>, wgrim@siue.edu, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, kientzle@acm.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: key=value in rc.conf (was Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs?) Message-ID: <20030103082422.GA61889@mithrandr.moria.org> In-Reply-To: <20030103131453.K69183-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au> References: <3E14B7E8.A1159384@mindspring.com> <20030103131453.K69183-100000@starbug.ugh.net.au>
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On Fri 2003-01-03 (14:11), Andrew wrote: > > They're in the CVS repository. Do a "cvs diff -c" before and after > > the code was added to the file, and you'll get my diffs. 8-). > > Perhaps the stuff at the bottom of defaults/rc.conf needs to be in a > seperate file (like read_rc_conf.sh) with another line or 2 to read in > defaults/rc.conf first. > > That way shell scripts needing to parse rc.conf call upon a tool to do it > in the same way as C programs are having to. From that point on rc.conf > can be key=value pairs only. > > Would this solve everyones problems or am I overlookign something? > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message I've proposed this before (in January 2000), including code to replace all the 'sh' usages of it. Didn't write the tokeniser for C, though. http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=48338+0+archive/2000/freebsd-hackers/20001008.freebsd-hackers I got one "go ahead", but a "I don't see the point" from the then-pseudo-maintainer of the rc stuff. Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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