cvs commit: src/etc rc.subr src/share/man/man8 rc.subr.8

[Florent Thoumie]

On Wed, 2006-06-21 at 13:17 +0200, Stefan Farfeleder wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 12:05:09PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
> > 
> > Then I'm not sure what script would benefit from this function. Can you
> > point me to an example?
> > 
> > > > I don't have a particular feeling against your function but it uses
> > > > commands that may not be available early enough (getopt, egrep). While
> > > > it's easy to remove the getopt dependency (see rc.d/mdconfig), it's not
> > > > the case for egrep.
> > > 
> > > It's POSIX getopts, which ought to be a shell built-it by its design.
> > > egrep is used with -e only, one can avoid using it if egrep isn't
> > > available yet.  The only issue is true and false, I was sure they
> > > were in /bin, but it can be fixed easily.
> 
> true and false are builtins for /bin/sh.
> 
> > 
> > Still, with /bin/sh, getopt isn't a builtin:
> 
> getopt != getopts

Oops. Misread that.

> > $ sh -c 'which getopt'
> > /usr/bin/getopt
> 
> /bin/sh doesn't have a which builtin, so you are executing /usr/bin/which which
> just looks in $PATH.  Try 'type getopts'.

Bleh, bites me everytime.

Thanks!

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer
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