On 4/18/06, Coleman Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/18/06, M. Warner Losh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Eric Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > : > > : Thanks for the feedback! Looks like I made an erroneous assumption > > that > > : the wc, expr, and printf tools found in /usr/bin and /bin would be > > : available through boot, but that isn't the case on systems with those > > : file systems separate from /. I'm not sure how to resolve some of > > these > > : issues, since I don't know of a way to do those functions in csh > > without > > : them. I'm open to suggestions here from anyone. > > > > /bin and /sbin are available through the entire boot. Only things in > > /usr are suspect because /usr gets mounted early in the boot process, > > but not as early as /. > > > > Warner > > > Nice work! > > I too noticed the dependence upon wc, printf, expr. I went ahead and > rewrote these into equivalents in native sh. (attaching new diff). > > This diff is against the latest 7-CURRENT rc.subr. I had to manually merge > 3 hunks due to some differences. > > -- > coleman kane >
I did some ugly-looking loops to build the space-padding expansion. Does anybody know of a better, more elegant way to accomplish the same thing with sh (and/or stuff in /bin,/sbin)? -- coleman _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
