[PATCH] Fancy rc startup style RFC

[Coleman Kane]

On 4/18/06, Coleman Kane <zombyfork at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/18/06, M. Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
>
> > In message: <44452532.40703 at centtech.com>
> >             Eric Anderson <anderson at centtech.com> writes:
> > :
> > : Thanks for the feedback!  Looks like I made an erroneous assumption
> > that
> > : the wc, expr, and printf tools found in /usr/bin and /bin would be
> > : available through boot, but that isn't the case on systems with those
> > : file systems separate from /.  I'm not sure how to resolve some of
> > these
> > : issues, since I don't know of a way to do those functions in csh
> > without
> > : them.  I'm open to suggestions here from anyone.
> >
> > /bin and /sbin are available through the entire boot.  Only things in
> > /usr are suspect because /usr gets mounted early in the boot process,
> > but not as early as /.
> >
> > Warner
>
>
> Nice work!
>
> I too noticed the dependence upon wc, printf, expr. I went ahead and
> rewrote these into equivalents in native sh. (attaching new diff).
>
> This diff is against the latest 7-CURRENT rc.subr. I had to manually merge
> 3 hunks due to some differences.
>
> --
> coleman kane
>

I did some ugly-looking loops to build the space-padding expansion. Does
anybody know of a better, more elegant way to accomplish the same thing with
sh (and/or stuff in /bin,/sbin)?


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coleman