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Date:      Sun, 28 Feb 1999 11:32:40 +0100 (CET)
From:      Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/kget Makefile kget.8 kget.c
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9902281131210.12310-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
In-Reply-To: <36D896C8.38DAC6DC@newsguy.com>

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On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote:

> "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
> > 
> > > > Can't do that until include failures are silent. :)
> > >
> > > I didn't realize there was a problem. Would you mind describing what
> > > seems to be the problem? :-) Or, more precisely, what ought to be
> > > done?
> > 
> > Well, if we're to do any sort of "speculative loading" as a way of
> > implementing hooks, it would be nice to have an "include without
> > yelping" routine that would just fail silently if the file wasn't
> > found.  It's either that or write a routine which opens the file,
> > attempts to load it if found, then closes it (if open).  It's kinda
> > cumbersome for what should really be a built-in.
> 
> Something like an "-f" flag to include? :-) 
> 
> I think existing mechanisms already enable you to do this. I'll
> check and get back to you.

Why not just silence the 'include', and do something like

load <>0 if YELP then


Andrzej Bialecki

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