Generalising ${required_*}

[Doug Barton]

Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> As of now, the ${required_*} variables work only in rc.d scripts
> using the default start method.  I've found that making ${required_*}
> work in scripts that override the default start method can help us
> to reduce code duplication in /etc/rc.d.  In particular, I'd like
> to introduce ${required_modules} because quite a few scripts have
> to have a prestart method just to load a kernel module.
> 
> Do you think such change would make sense?  Thanks.
> 
> Its prototype can be found in my P4 tree:
> //depot/user/yar/hack/etc/...
> (also available via www at http://perforce.freebsd.org)

For those of us who are p4 impaired, can you give us a URL to view the
changes you're proposing?

Doug

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