Re: [PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

On 4/18/06, Coleman Kane <zombyfork@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 4/18/06, M. Warner Losh <imp@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In message: <44452532.40703@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Eric Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
:
: Thanks for the feedback! Looks like I made an erroneous assumption
that
: the wc, expr, and printf tools found in /usr/bin and /bin would be
: available through boot, but that isn't the case on systems with those
: file systems separate from /. I'm not sure how to resolve some of
these
: issues, since I don't know of a way to do those functions in csh
without
: them. I'm open to suggestions here from anyone.

/bin and /sbin are available through the entire boot. Only things in
/usr are suspect because /usr gets mounted early in the boot process,
but not as early as /.

Warner


Nice work!

I too noticed the dependence upon wc, printf, expr. I went ahead and
rewrote these into equivalents in native sh. (attaching new diff).

This diff is against the latest 7-CURRENT rc.subr. I had to manually merge
3 hunks due to some differences.

--
coleman kane


I did some ugly-looking loops to build the space-padding expansion. Does
anybody know of a better, more elegant way to accomplish the same thing with
sh (and/or stuff in /bin,/sbin)?


--
coleman
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