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Date:      Sun, 26 Nov 2006 14:13:39 +0000
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: rcvar function in rc.subr
Message-ID:  <4569A113.5080106@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20061126121907.GC60959@comp.chem.msu.su>
References:  <1161268403.89897.1.camel@mayday.esat.net> <20061126121907.GC60959@comp.chem.msu.su>

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Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:33:23PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> Does anybody have a clue why /etc/rc.d/foo rcvar prints a leading '$'
>> before the variable name? Doesn't make much sense with /bin/sh.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply.  According to the CVS history, the code
> was just imported from NetBSD.  Perhaps it's too late to change it
> as people are likely to have workarounds for it already.  Of course,
> $foo_enable=YES looks ugly and has a different meaning in sh(1).

Well, it may be worth fixing in HEAD even if we don't MFC the change.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer



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