devd problem with 9-stable

[Freddie Cash]

On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 11:45 AM, Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de> wrote:
> Chuck Swiger wrote:
>  > On Jun 15, 2012, at 11:23 AM, Oliver Fromme wrote:
>  > > You can try to prepend a backslash, i.e. echo \$devnum.  This
>  > > isn't documented, but then again, using backslashes to continue
>  > > strings that span multiple lines isn't documented either.
>  >
>  > Line continuations and escaping special chars like $ are in "man sh":
>
> Yes, I know that, but the question is how devd(8) parses the
> action strings.
>
> The problem here is that we have multiple levels or parsing.
> First, devd reads the line, concatenates continuation lines
> (apparently -- it's not documented), expands devd variables,
> and *then* it passes the resulting string to the shell for
> further parsing and processing.

If you have that many levels of backticks, variable expansions,
programs, etc, wouldn't it be a prime candidate for a script?  Just
pass in a couple of variables directly from devd, and then do
everything else inside the script?

-- 
Freddie Cash
fjwcash at gmail.com