Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 00:10:48 -0700 (PDT) From: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: louie@TransSys.COM, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hans@brandinnovators.com Subject: Re: Heads up and and a call for a show of hands. Message-ID: <199707120710.AAA00868@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU> In-Reply-To: <3321.868682513@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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* Heh - actually, I also forgot to mention that the whole rc.d script * thing has some inherent limitations as currently implement: What if, * for example, you require that certain initialization be done in a * given order? Not at all a far-fetched scenario. They are run in alphabetical (actually shell globbing) order -- that's why modula-3 installs one with digits in front (you need the shared libraries to be added before you start cvsupd, for instance). We're not saying that that is a perfect mechanism, but I have yet to see a real world example of why it doesn't work. Besides, we're not talking about how to handle automatic startup scripts now (we've gone through that one already) -- it works pretty well for adding shared library paths, and that's all that this is about. Satoshi
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