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Date:      Mon, 29 Jul 2002 14:39:45 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net>
To:        Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
Cc:        arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: devfs ruleset initialization at boot time (was: cvs commit: src/sbin/devfs devfs.8 devfs.c extern.h rule.c )
Message-ID:  <20020729123945.GB41804@starjuice.net>
In-Reply-To: <20020728070706.4CDE63E1E@turbine.trit.org>
References:  <200207280645.g6S6jUCo040872@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020728070706.4CDE63E1E@turbine.trit.org>

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On (2002/07/28 07:07), Dima Dorfman wrote:

> >   Log:
> >   Implement this (quoted from the updated man page): If the first token
> >   of a rule specification is a single dash (``-''), rules are read from
> >   the standard input and the rest of the specification is ignored.
> 
> phk originally suggested this as a way to copy rulesets (see the
> EXAMPLES section of the man page), but I think it might also be useful
> as a way to initialize rulesets from rc scripts.  E.g., consider
> having something like this in rc.conf:

From a standards point of view, I think it would be cleaner to provide a
-f option to devfs(8) that allows the operator to specify the file from
which to read rules.

Sorry to keep sending these suggestions after you've already done the
work.

Ciao,
Sheldon.

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