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Date:      Wed, 31 May 2006 16:25:31 +0100
From:      Florent Thoumie <flz@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Christopher Nelson <paradox@BBHC.ORG>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: conf/97301: infinite loop on boot when network_interfaces set to nonexistent interface in rc.conf
Message-ID:  <1149089131.91276.37.camel@mayday.esat.net>
In-Reply-To: <200605311440.k4VEeJsu051493@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200605311440.k4VEeJsu051493@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Wed, 2006-05-31 at 14:40 +0000, Christopher Nelson wrote:
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>  Duh.  I knew that.  The bug was not submitted because I thought that I
>  had the separator correct.  The bug was submitted because just having an
>  incorrect separator should NOT cause the entire system to get stuck in
>  an infinite loop on startup.  That behavior is WAY too pathological for
>  such a minor mistake.

That wasn't really clear since you talked about non-existent
interfaces. /etc/rc.d/netif is perfectly happy with them.

We could 's/[^a-z0-9 ]/ /g' but sed isn't available at that time and I
don't feel like maintaining a list of wrong separators to use with
ltr().

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Florent Thoumie
flz@FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer

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