On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 10:44:54PM +0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > Hi, > > while working on rcctl(8), i noticed that the rc.conf(8) manual > is of... err, how can i express it politely... somewhat doubtful > quality. Here is a stab at it. > > As a first step, i moved all the examples from the DESCRIPTION to > the EXAMPLES esction. After that, the DESCRIPTION section was > basically empty, so i had clean earth to till. > > Do not attempt to read the diff. Just apply it and read the result. > > OK? > Ingo
Hi Ingo In the "Base system daemon configuration variables" section, in the last paragraph this is incorrect. ... including a string containing only a single blank character, ... Looking at the _rc_parse_conf() code in rc.subr says, that any leading and trailing blanks on the value side of key=value get stripped away. And maybe it's worth a note that in case of multiple lines with the same key, only the last is used. Besides that OK rpe@