Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 15:19:07 +0300 From: Yar Tikhiy <yar@comp.chem.msu.su> To: Florent Thoumie <flz@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-rc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rcvar function in rc.subr Message-ID: <20061126121907.GC60959@comp.chem.msu.su> In-Reply-To: <1161268403.89897.1.camel@mayday.esat.net> References: <1161268403.89897.1.camel@mayday.esat.net>
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On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:33:23PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote: > Does anybody have a clue why /etc/rc.d/foo rcvar prints a leading '$' > before the variable name? Doesn't make much sense with /bin/sh. Sorry for the late reply. According to the CVS history, the code was just imported from NetBSD. Perhaps it's too late to change it as people are likely to have workarounds for it already. Of course, $foo_enable=YES looks ugly and has a different meaning in sh(1). -- Yar
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