From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 23 1:43:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from scientia.demon.co.uk (scientia.demon.co.uk [212.228.14.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C681014E53 for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 01:43:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ben@scientia.demon.co.uk) Received: from lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk ([192.168.0.3] ident=exim) by scientia.demon.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11U4Pn-0007Gd-00; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:39:43 +0100 Received: (from ben) by lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk (Exim 3.032 #1) id 11U4Pm-0006jz-00; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:39:42 +0100 Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:39:42 +0100 From: Ben Smithurst To: Doug Cc: Sheldon Hearn , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New 3.3-STABLE: out of file descriptors Message-ID: <19990923093942.E25828@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> References: <1739.938028592@axl.noc.iafrica.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug wrote: > DON'T do this. As I told you when I sent you this code snippet it > causes a lot of problems. Namely, numerous places in the rc files where > /etc/defaults/rc.conf gets re-source'd, causing the code below to not look > at your overrides again. There are a couple of other problems, but that's > the biggest one. This problem is solvable, but it will require some > reexamination of how the default and overrides files are sourced. How about some counter? e.g., complain if the same file is sourced more than say 10 times? I can't see that happening in normal operation, I may have failed to consider some possibilities though. -- Ben Smithurst | PGP: 0x99392F7D ben@scientia.demon.co.uk | key available from keyservers and | ben+pgp@scientia.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message