svn commit: r200743 - in head/usr.sbin: . service

[Hajimu UMEMOTO]

Hi,

>>>>> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:51:13 -0800
>>>>> Doug Barton <dougb at FreeBSD.org> said:

dougb> Other than the removal of "exit $?" I'm not necessarily opposed to
dougb> that idea, but I'm wondering what value this change would have in the
dougb> "system is already up and running" case (when it will be executed) vs.
dougb> at boot time (such as in /etc/rc where the code is copied from).

I don't just remove "exit $?".  Since the script is kicked by "exec",
the return value from the script is returned to the process which
kicked service(8), directly.
About the value this change, I think it should be same as the values
at boot time.  I cannot imagine that someone want to restart the
system daemons under the user environment.  Even if someone want to do
so, he still can kick /etc/rc.d/foo, directly.
Further, it seems service(8) does similar thing on CentOS.

Sincerely,

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Hajimu UMEMOTO @ Internet Mutual Aid Society Yokohama, Japan
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