cvs commit: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting article.sgml

[Doug Barton]

Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> yar         2007-03-03 10:11:34 UTC
> 
>   FreeBSD doc repository
> 
>   Modified files:
>     en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting article.sgml 
>   Log:
>   Explain how an rc.d script can use extra command-line arguments.
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>   1.9       +138 -0    doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/article.sgml
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> http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/rc-scripting/article.sgml.diff?&r1=1.8&r2=1.9&f=h

Yar,

This good stuff, thanks! I have one quibble with the last paragraph. 
The shift in rc.subr isn't "apparent" as you phrase it, it's literal:

run_rc_command()
{
     ...
     # Don't repeat the first argument when passing additional command-
     # line arguments to the command subroutines.
     #
     shift 1
     rc_extra_args="$*"
     ...

I would also put this information in the second paragraph, since as a 
first time reader of your piece I had the question very early on. I 
would say:

limits). The first command line parameter (start|stop|etc.) will be 
shifted out by rc.subr, so what was $2 on the original command line 
will become $1, and so on. Therefore the changes in the script itself ...


hth,

Doug

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