From owner-freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 11 05:57:45 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0C6C1065672; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:57:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rea@codelabs.ru) Received: from 0.mx.codelabs.ru (0.mx.codelabs.ru [144.206.177.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843868FC08; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:57:44 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=codelabs.ru; s=two; h=Sender:In-Reply-To:Content-Type:MIME-Version:References:Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date; bh=bKcmE//DzddyQcw5vUdGsYdf+Ma6tmV0PdhBPJ2urls=; b=R4SFMG5F0gXR8U+QRLK25y0A56pTk0YHUFXfVA/UyZMwqOMjN7eSkorr7mQ4VslmCDQWixkvkCTdgeSGELueR3r4u0crJEWIx/zEBXwSJ++eyMiQBDHFl2oOHsOVuuC+ZJSqRHmBo+GSm1sm49e6wIsZu+XMlhpj/TKeist+GytyVG0nMH1P8AWchNp/gLINYzmKcdPDM4R3gBF5Ngcw2zaMVDSI975nyXfjLuKNATWUBy9r5OLmTtA4hKmLwU0WzF2gVLUR76dxhFftgDIQX4QtEflN0+DxCeup/r73IdGZ8GAzLJ0qKRfXHtm3fu1P9VfQ3tnjfG8QfEcAi5YPtw==; Received: from void.codelabs.ru (void.codelabs.ru [144.206.177.25]) by 0.mx.codelabs.ru with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) id 1RkrBw-000DWa-2V; Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:57:44 +0300 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 09:57:42 +0400 From: Eygene Ryabinkin To: Mike Telahun Makonnen Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="sxUMTo9WXJrtNoGr" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: rea@codelabs.ru Cc: gordon@freebsd.org, freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Usage of the err() inside rc.d scripts X-BeenThere: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Discussion related to /etc/rc.d design and implementation." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2012 05:57:46 -0000 --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--