Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:49:18PM +0300, Mike Telahun Makonnen wrote: > 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?).
OK, thanks for clarification. I think that the request to the -current@, -stable@ and -embedded@ asking for any users of the rc_fast_and_loose will give a better overview of its current users. I'll post the question to these lists. -- Eygene Ryabinkin ,,,^..^,,, [ Life's unfair - but root password helps! | codelabs.ru ] [ 82FE 06BC D497 C0DE 49EC 4FF0 16AF 9EAE 8152 ECFB | freebsd.org ]
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