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Date:      Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:41:32 -0700
From:      Doug <Doug@gorean.org>
To:        Ben Smithurst <ben@scientia.demon.co.uk>
Cc:        Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: New 3.3-STABLE: out of file descriptors
Message-ID:  <37EA583C.A1E459E3@gorean.org>
References:  <1739.938028592@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909221500270.30698-100000@dt014nb6.san.rr.com> <19990923093942.E25828@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk>

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Ben Smithurst wrote:
> 
> Doug wrote:
> 
> >       DON'T do this. As I told you when I sent you this code snippet it
> > causes a lot of problems. Namely, numerous places in the rc files where
> > /etc/defaults/rc.conf gets re-source'd, causing the code below to not look
> > at your overrides again. There are a couple of other problems, but that's
> > the biggest one. This problem is solvable, but it will require some
> > reexamination of how the default and overrides files are sourced.
> 
> How about some counter? e.g., complain if the same file is sourced more
> than say 10 times? I can't see that happening in normal operation, I may
> have failed to consider some possibilities though.

	Yeah, that's more or less what I had in mind for the backup plan. It
would still be nice to make the rc scripts smarter about how they do the
sourcing though. 

Doug
-- 
"My mama told me, my mama said, 'don't cry.' She said, 'you're too young
a man
to have as many women you got.' I looked at my mother dear and didn't
even
crack a smile. I said, 'If women kill me, I don't mind dyin!'" 

    - John Belushi as "Joliet" Jake Blues, "I Don't Know"


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