Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 18:17:40 +0000 From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> To: Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> Cc: FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: libinit idea Message-ID: <0DB376E3-8C7F-4F20-9DEE-4DB98C078571@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <530A39BB.6070003@allanjude.com> References: <BLU179-W28221A0539478FDDF45ADDC6840@phx.gbl> <62A9DF47-C938-464B-92B6-9A2A96B5A9C9@FreeBSD.org> <530A39BB.6070003@allanjude.com>
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On 23 Feb 2014, at 18:11, Allan Jude <freebsd@allanjude.com> wrote: > sysrc solves this nicely, it is in base now, and is great for > programmatically adding, removing and changing lines in rc.conf style > files. It is also in ports for older versions of FreeBSD where it is = not > in base. The problem is, there is no such thing as an rc.conf style file. = rc.conf is just a shell script. If you only edit it with sysrc, or you = are careful to preserve the structure, then it's fine. There is = absolutely nothing stopping you, however, from writing arbitrarily = complex shell scripts inside rc.conf. Sure, it's a terrible idea to do = so, but when has that ever stopped anyone? An rc-replacement could enforce this by only accepting purely = declarative files for configuration, guaranteeing that if they were = syntactically valid they would also be machine editable, no matter what = the user does to them. David
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