Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 13:52:36 -0800 From: Jordan K Hubbard <jkh@queasyweasel.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> Cc: wgrim@siue.edu, phk@FreeBSD.ORG, kientzle@acm.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reading rc.conf from C programs? Message-ID: <8183059A-1E9C-11D7-883C-000393BB9222@queasyweasel.com> In-Reply-To: <3E14B087.EC43701B@mindspring.com>
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You're somewhat mistaken if you think there was EVER any defined policy
with respect to this, it was simply a shell configuration file that
gained prominance as it went along, from its humble beginnings as
/etc/sysconfig or whatever it was we called it back then. There was
never any specific mandate that it be a key/value pair configuration
variable database, that was simply a de-facto standard and one which
was never clearly documented.
In hindsight, if we'd really wanted a key/value pair database then we
should have done it in XML and simply dealt with it at arm's length
through a accessor utility, e.g. instead of:
case ${ipsec_enable} in
We'd have:
case `sysconfig -r ipsec_enable` in
Or something to that effect.
If you're really looking for "the real solution" underlying this
problem then you need to look past the format being used at the moment
and at the fundamental problem it was originally trying to solve.
- Jordan
On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 01:35 PM, Terry Lambert wrote:
> wgrim@siue.edu wrote:
>> Well, perhaps I'm missing something here, but can't you just tokenize
>> the items
>> in rc.conf using strtok after opening up the file in your C program?
>
> You are missing something. Someone violated policy, and put
> shell code into rc.conf, instead of leaving it a name/value
> pairs.
>
> -- Terry
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