Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:57:42 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin <rea@freebsd.org> To: Mike Telahun Makonnen <mtm@FreeBSD.Org> Cc: gordon@freebsd.org, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usage of the err() inside rc.d scripts Message-ID: <IfHKWIPt8efP%2Byh28GaxaoZ%2BS48@g5jH1yj%2BTnAiSdLOy3xs5Jutvhc> In-Reply-To: <CAEO0X8ctunWc65JkubChTGOEe5Kg1J7XqjBCtKd8%2BKXbe4KNqQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <z2SB6G389aCpk5QE%2BnG6/SgVglc@YnbH/K3/Y1Z96RV2jTofcGuSPJI> <CAEO0X8ctunWc65JkubChTGOEe5Kg1J7XqjBCtKd8%2BKXbe4KNqQ@mail.gmail.com>
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--sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:49:18PM +0300, Mike Telahun Makonnen wrote: > IIRC it's used in NetBSD as a fallback for very slow machines, on > which forking a large number of processes, would delay start up too > long. It exists in FreeBSD because at the time rc.d was introduced > into FreeBSD we tried not to diverge from NetBSD too much. The idea > was that a script from a NetBSD machine should be able to run on a > FreeBSD machine and vice versa. However, that has been (mostly) > abandoned now and over the past few years most of the NetBSD > compatibility shims have been removed. I don't know if anyone uses > this feature on FreeBSD (embedded systems maybe?). OK, thanks for clarification. I think that the request to the -current@, -stable@ and -embedded@ asking for any users of the rc_fast_and_loose will give a better overview of its current users. I'll post the question to these lists. --=20 Eygene Ryabinkin ,,,^..^,,, [ Life's unfair - but root password helps! | codelabs.ru ] [ 82FE 06BC D497 C0DE 49EC 4FF0 16AF 9EAE 8152 ECFB | freebsd.org ] --sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.18 (FreeBSD) iF4EAREIAAYFAk8NJNYACgkQFq+eroFS7PvxegD/QCVT3nxgjL3WVj/6iISE5MI+ D+Q/IcGQDGuhUOs8hFMA/2YbE+B2D1kkIySrT1lHtNRwz91WRAnVQX6kkzO/DV9i =Sh7G -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr--
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