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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