> > So, the question is: what is it good for and how people use it? >
IIRC it's used in NetBSD as a fallback for very slow machines, on which forking a large number of processes, would delay start up too long. It exists in FreeBSD because at the time rc.d was introduced into FreeBSD we tried not to diverge from NetBSD too much. The idea was that a script from a NetBSD machine should be able to run on a FreeBSD machine and vice versa. However, that has been (mostly) abandoned now and over the past few years most of the NetBSD compatibility shims have been removed. I don't know if anyone uses this feature on FreeBSD (embedded systems maybe?). Cheers, Mike. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-rc To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
