In a message written on Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 12:18:55PM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote: > rc.conf is _not_ a list of variable=value > pairs. It is a shell script that sets > a number of shell variables. Nothing > less than a full-fledged implementation > of /bin/sh is gauranteed to work in all > cases.
Might it be worth restricting rc.conf to be a (very small?) subset
of sh syntax so that it remains both a valid sh script and also
easier to parse in a program?
Clearly things like the end of /etc/defaults/rc.conf would have to
be handled differently, but that might be a good trade off to make
the file more easily parseable in many languages.
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