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Date:      Tue, 20 Mar 2007 10:45:33 -0500
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@freebsd.org>
To:        Sergey Baturov <sergey@toor.org.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-rc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: mountcritlocal and mountlate issue
Message-ID:  <20070320154533.GA34961@lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070320151033.A9CF756@gracer.toor.org.ru>
References:  <20070320151033.A9CF756@gracer.toor.org.ru>

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On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 06:10:33PM +0300, Sergey Baturov wrote:
> Hi, all!=20
>=20
> I've found a small non-critical issue in /etc/rc.d/mountcritlocal
> and /etc/rc.d/mountlate scripts. The issue is the same:=20
>=20
> 	mount -a ...
> 	echo '.'=20
>=20
> 	case $? in
> 	0)
> 		;;
> 	*)
> 		...=20
>=20
> There is no situation when 'case' would have a value other then '0'
> because 'echo' executed just before the 'case' and the last command
> exit status will almost always be zero. And the user will never see
> error message in '*' case.=20
>=20
> Is this correct?=20

Yes, this is a common mistake.  I think the easiest solution is
probablly to save $? after the mount call and refer to the saved value.
That and replacing the case with an if statement since test will do the
job just fine.

-- Brooks

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