On 2015/01/30 18:25, James Ryland Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 5:49 AM, Stuart Henderson <s...@spacehopper.org> > wrote: > > On 2015-01-28, James Ryland Miller <james.ryland.mil...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> As a brand new OpenBSD user, I *love* how the flags work in rc.conf.local: > >> > >> "" says to me that the daemon is being called with no flags. > > > > Unfortunately you run into an inconsistency here, which occurs exactly > > because of this double-duty: "" actually means "use the default flags from > > the daemon_flags line in /etc/rc.d/somefile.rc". > > Yes, I understand that now. It still makes more sense to me > the way it is currently implemented.
It does, until you really want no parameters whatsoever and need to use foo_flags=" " to work around it ;)