svn commit: r230007 - in head: etc etc/rc.d share/man/man8

[Brooks Davis]

On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 03:06:02PM +0400, Eygene Ryabinkin wrote:
> Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 11:27:59AM -0600, Brooks Davis wrote:
> > Arguably it should be moved to /libexec since it's not an rc.d
> > script and simply uses the framework because it had similar needs
> 
> Well, I fear that some user scripts may rely on the dhclient path
> to be /etc/rc.d/dhclient, so such a change could lead to the POLA
> violation.  So, all pros and cons of such a change should be carefully
> weighted.  What is the gain from moving it to /libexec apart from
> avoiding pollution of /etc/rc.d by non-rc.d scripts?  It is a good
> thing to have for the clear design, but having dhclient in /etc/rc.d
> has no effect on the boot process, since it is marked 'nostart' and
> it allows people to use 'service dhclient restart $if' without hacking
> the service to still allow to use this command.  We can, of course,
> move it to /libexec/rc.d/ and add this path to the local_startup, but
> I doubt that this approach will give any real gain, though I can be
> missing some important points.

That's basically why I didn't move it in the first place.  It's clearly
in the wrong place, but people will expect it there so there isn't much
point in moving it.

-- Brooks
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