From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Sep 23 9:42:43 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dt014nb6.san.rr.com (dt014nb6.san.rr.com [24.30.129.182]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737D415EDF for ; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:42:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014nb6.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA38609; Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:41:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37EA583C.A1E459E3@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 23 Sep 1999 09:41:32 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Smithurst Cc: Sheldon Hearn , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New 3.3-STABLE: out of file descriptors References: <1739.938028592@axl.noc.iafrica.com> <19990923093942.E25828@lithium.scientia.demon.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message