Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 21:09:23 -0800 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> To: John Baldwin <jobaldwi@vt.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /etc/rc.conf, take 46! Message-ID: <39605.922079363@zippy.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 21 Mar 1999 22:12:03 EST." <XFMail.990321221203.jobaldwi@vt.edu>
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The problem with putting code in /etc/defaults/rc.conf is that
simplistic parsers which read it as ``var = value # optional comment''
get very confused by for loops or function declarations or what have
you. It also makes it more difficult to read in /etc/{*,.}rc.conf
from an admin program, permute it in some way, and then write out a
whole new config file - you have to detect the meta-information
somehow and preserve it across saves in addition to just parsing
variables (which is more straight-forward to say the least).
- Jordan
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