From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 19 22:28:54 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D184FB8; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:28:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bjkfbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ie0-f180.google.com (mail-ie0-f180.google.com [209.85.223.180]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300F48FC0C; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:28:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ie0-f180.google.com with SMTP id c10so3699692ieb.11 for ; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:28:53 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=+L3EevxDrIyNNB7pVx4QYG0ghHT6r7J6GeCJt7FJaXY=; b=YfyK0bSgOQCkDtw+p/0n5KCXx5uUZkzpYslKFbODQyMIyflDpqhV2ST+mhDeFDub2C WjOA4Ob1FpVKep0gDNHuhrVbYdeMCziLtiweDqVt3c3p1kA2ChqielR3BnF3rfl0LAiJ kkw9h9D3JDlZmenzU6M5X26LlhB/MDw9A3iG5Jx6BeRSkoKSZiB7p5k224f0nmdB5uYr 54vSKChjxfpxqagN49UcgrznjLYL2s/E0SsQi666Lglk/lKG1lHcuya2v+PG0tDgy9HA WcAVcRmYxO/ASUefWs+9YTIUoyKyLSE93T4WRgp9d/bfkbOGQ0Fo8gn08n9IP2e/JCQx oLWg== MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.101.144 with SMTP id e16mr7522948ico.5.1355956133502; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:28:53 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.42.56.83 with HTTP; Wed, 19 Dec 2012 14:28:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <50D23961.7090803@delphij.net> References: <201212132332.qBDNWmK4037503@svn.freebsd.org> <50D1D720.80206@FreeBSD.org> <1355931456.1198.203.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <05CC5BAD-B968-4A7A-8097-A3344D970D63@mu.org> <1355932607.1198.206.camel@revolution.hippie.lan> <50D2128A.7030205@delphij.net> <20121219210418.GA83983@stack.nl> <50D23961.7090803@delphij.net> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 17:28:53 -0500 Message-ID: Subject: Re: svn commit: r244198 - in head: etc/rc.d sbin/sysctl From: Benjamin Kaduk To: bjk@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "src-committers@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 22:28:54 -0000 [cc trimmed] On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 5:02 PM, Xin Li wrote: > Irrelevant. Consider this (extreme) situation: someone distributes > several sets of sysctl values tuned for certain situations, like > tcp.conf, supermicro.conf, ... and wants to put them together in a > directory, it's useful to source from the directory without having to > do a generation of command line on boot, so when something goes wrong, > they just remove the pack rather than changing /etc/rc.conf. > Not a direct reply, but just noting that it can be *very* useful to have, e.g., a README or foo.old or foo.disabled file in the same directory where the "live" configuration files live. Always interpreting the full '*' glob is not always the best thing to do. -Ben Kaduk