Oversight in /etc/defaults/rc.conf

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 12 12:27:34 UTC 2016


On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 07:17:19AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> I just upgraded my main machine to 11-STABLE.  Things are mostly working
> fine -- however I did notice that the new iovctl rc script is apparently
> enabled by default.  That seems like a trivial omission:
> 
> Index: etc/defaults/rc.conf
> ===================================================================
> --- etc/defaults/rc.conf	(revision 302482)
> +++ etc/defaults/rc.conf	(working copy)
> @@ -695,6 +695,7 @@
>  rctl_enable="YES"		# Load rctl(8) rules on boot
>  rctl_rules="/etc/rctl.conf"	# rctl(8) ruleset. See rctl.conf(5).
> 
> +iovctl_enable="NO"
>  iovctl_files=""		# Config files for iovctl(8)
> 
>  ##############################################################
> 

I'm not sure I understand.  Is there a functional and/or performance
impact with it enabled by default?  (Note, I don't disable it in my
rc.conf, and there is no /dev/iov/* on my system.)

Glen

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