On Thursday, April 28, 2011 5:59:54 pm Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > I've seen cases where entries in /boot/loader.conf throw parser errors > during loader(8) when quotes aren't used. The man page denotes that > quotes are required, which doesn't appear to be true? Possibly the > parser only throws errors if non-numeric/non-integer values (e.g. > strings) are specified without quotes. > > It's interesting that in the BUGS section of the man page the syntax > shown for hw.ata.ata_dma=0 also ""violates"" the ""required"" syntax.
Yes, it's confusing. My gut instinct is that quotes are only required if the value contains whitespace. I've certainly used 'autoboot_delay=NO' without quotes before. I just did some tests and it looks like quotes are only required for values that contain whitespace, so foo=bar bar=42G baz="foo bar" are fine, but baz=foo bar will fail. This is similar to normal shell syntax for assigning to variables. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
