Re: import NetBSD rc system

[Sergey Babkin]

Warner Losh wrote:
> 
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mark Santcroos writes:
> : Can it be called SysV style? Or not seperated in that way?
> : (I must say, the big ugly rc thing is the only thing I don't like about
> : FreeBSD, I'm very much in favor of the SysV style init. But thats another
> : war ;)
> 
> It specifically isn't SysV style.  It works.  SysV style encodes the
> startup order in the file NAMES.  The NetBSD rc system encodes it in
> the files themselves.  A big improvement.

Or a drawback. Encoding the order in the names makes changing
the order or disabling some files easy, without any neccessity to 
edit the contents of the files.

Though I haven't seen the NetBSD approach, maybe it actually is better.

-SB

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