Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 16:25:31 +0100 From: Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org> To: Christopher Nelson <paradox@BBHC.ORG> Cc: freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: conf/97301: infinite loop on boot when network_interfaces set to nonexistent interface in rc.conf Message-ID: <1149089131.91276.37.camel@mayday.esat.net> In-Reply-To: <200605311440.k4VEeJsu051493@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200605311440.k4VEeJsu051493@freefall.freebsd.org>
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--=-hVM3OYLSPwioYXLkqeCd Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:40 +0000, Christopher Nelson wrote: =20 > Duh. I knew that. The bug was not submitted because I thought that I > had the separator correct. The bug was submitted because just having an > incorrect separator should NOT cause the entire system to get stuck in > an infinite loop on startup. That behavior is WAY too pathological for > such a minor mistake. That wasn't really clear since you talked about non-existent interfaces. /etc/rc.d/netif is perfectly happy with them. We could 's/[^a-z0-9 ]/ /g' but sed isn't available at that time and I don't feel like maintaining a list of wrong separators to use with ltr(). --=20 Florent Thoumie flz@FreeBSD.org FreeBSD Committer --=-hVM3OYLSPwioYXLkqeCd Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBEfbVrMxEkbVFH3PQRAhlRAJ9gCsrVMFkQdZKkzGnkwLmUtKLNFgCdHTuS 28hQdsElUrE3lnXgd4ck7SQ= =bMut -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-hVM3OYLSPwioYXLkqeCd--
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