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Date:      Tue, 26 Sep 1995 09:07:38 -0700
From:      patl@asimov.volant.org
To:        kelly@fsl.noaa.gov
Cc:        gryphon@healer.com, jmb@kryten.atinc.com, peter@taronga.com, hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: ports startup scripts
Message-ID:  <9509261607.AA00766@asimov.volant.org>

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|>      Pat> Bzzzzttttt.  Wrong.  The sequence number can be static -
|>      Pat> built in when the package was built.  It is the same for all
|>      Pat> systems.
|>  
|>  And thereby requiring anyone who's built a package to register with
|>  the czar of sequence numbers to prevent conflicts?  I don't like it:
|>  If I were a commercial software developer considering doing a FreeBSD
|>  port of some tool or other, having to do this is one additional
|>  step is one additional headache I'd rather not have.

No, there are -NO- numbering conflicts.  Because the filenames are
of the form [SK][0-9][0-9]mumble, where 'mumble' is the name of the
service.  Id doesn't matter if S87httpd and S87gopherd have the same
sequence number, because it doesn't matter which of them is started
first.



-Pat



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