> On Aug 18, 2026, at 9:46 AM, Robert Elz <[email protected]> wrote: > > My only reservation about the proposed technique is in convincing myself > that there is absolutely no way that the caching method can ever fail to > fail to be used when something has been altered (even if, for example, > I were to use my "nmvi" script - which edits files without altering their > modification date - the files st_ctime does get changed however - to edit > rc.conf, and that it can always detect added and removed rc.d files.
I guess that boils down to “what does test do with -nt”? > And one question, how does any of this apply to shutting the system down, > and running the appropriate scripts (in reverse order) at shutdown time? There is no impact to shutdown sequencing. Shutdown has a completely different criterial for rc.d script selection (must have “KEYWORD: shutdown”), and that list is much, much smaller. -- thorpej
