Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 10:56:25 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <arch@freebsd.org> To: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ugliness in rc.* scripts Message-ID: <200208231756.g7NHuPaX087707@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <20020821180344.GB33546@starjuice.net> References: <20020820232538.A53816@iguana.icir.org> <20020821074819.GA58163@mithrandr.moria.org> <20020821.095252.61131232.imp@bsdimp.com> <20020821180344.GB33546@starjuice.net>
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[From address modified because I don't want every message in this thread to end up in my personal mailbox. I'll read them in the list, thank you very much.] In article <20020821180344.GB33546@starjuice.net>, Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> wrote: > I don't think the ugliness involved in the rc scripts justifies any of > the proposed hack-arounds yet. [...] > But I digress. I don't think the ugliness is ugly enough. I agree, but I'd take it one step further. Why do we have to support case-insensitive matching of words like YES and NO at all? Just proclaim that from now on, keywords in /etc/rc.conf have to be upper-case. Practically everything else in Unix is case-sensitive -- why not the rc.conf knobs? Note also that most of rc.conf is *already* case-sensitive. If you put something like "MoUsEd_ENAble=YES" in your rc.conf file, it will do exactly nothing. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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