Hello!
Consider a service whose start-up is controlled by a variable in
/etc/rc.conf:
food=YES
Then, the output of `service food rcvar' is:
# food
$food=YES
I wonder why this choice has been made, instead of
# food
food=YES
This second version would also reproduce the shell syntax. I do not k
On dic 16 19:43, Rocky Hotas wrote:
>
> In FreeBSD, for example, the trailing `$' is absent.
[...]
> The trailing character `$' appears since the first revision where such a
Sorry, I used the word "trailing", but I was meaning the opposite: the `$'
at the beginning of the variable.
Rocky
On dic 17 21:12, David Holland wrote:
> My guess: someone was thinking in perl by accident and nobody's
> noticed it since, so it hasn't been fixed.
It's probable, then. Thanks for your feedback, David and Jeremy.
I would suggest, if possible and if you agree, to remove that extra `$'
(hoping th
On dic 20 21:32, Valery Ushakov wrote:
> I have committed the change (revision 1.106). We still refer to rc
> variables with the dollar prefix in errors/warnings, but there the
> context actually warrants it, kinda, so I decided to leave those
> alone.
It is reasonable and I definitely agree.
T
Hi Christos,
> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 at 3:05 PM
> From: "Christos Zoulas"
> To: "Charles Cui"
> Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
> Subject: sched_protect(2)
[...]
>
> On a different subject, I noticed that we don't have a man page for
> sched_protect(2), can you please take a stab at writing
hanks anyway!!!
Rocky
Sent: Monday, August 01, 2016 at 7:38 PM
From: "Charles Cui"
To: "Christos Zoulas"
Cc: "Rocky Hotas" , "tech-userlevelnetbsd.org"
Subject: Re: sched_protect(2)
Hi Rocky,
As Christos mentioned, you can help to improve the ma
Hi Christos, hi Charles,
maybe I have some little good updates. Feel free to use them only if they can
be useful.
> Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 at 5:47 PM
> From: "Christos Zoulas"
> To: "Rocky Hotas" , "Charles Cui"
>
> Cc: "tech-us
Hi Christos, hi Charles and all,
> Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2016 at 9:12 AM
> From: "Christos Zoulas"
> To: "Rocky Hotas"
> Cc: "Charles Cui" , "tech-userlevelnetbsd.org"
>
> Subject: Re: sched_protect(2)
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