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From: Bruce M Simpson <bms@spc.org>
To: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
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Subject: Re: Power profile script
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:12:03PM -0800, Nate Lawson wrote:
> I'm mostly looking for style input on the /etc/power_profile script since
> I'm not familiar with our scripting guidelines.  Note that it's called
> from devd (or manually by the user) and is not an rc.d boot-time thing.

One of the things green suggested to me when I was airing out the
new trafd.sh rcNG script was the use of $(...) instead of the backtick
operator -- apparently this has slightly different semantics but it
does save on forking overhead.

BMS