cvs commit: src/etc/rc.d early.sh

[Mike Makonnen]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 05:07:45PM +0200, Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav wrote:
> Dag-Erling Sm??rgrav <des at des.no> writes:
> > I must confess I don't really see the point of this change.  Yes, people
> > can write rc.d scripts instead, but not (by far) as easily as they can
> > add a line or two to rc.early.
> >
> > If the problem is that rc.early is sourced by early.sh which is sourced
> > by rc, simply rename early.sh to early so it runs in a subshell instead.
> 
> Doug, any chance you can back out your change and apply to have
> src/etc/rc.d/early.sh renamed to src/etc/rc.d/early instead?

Whatever we end up doing just an FYI that the reason it's a .sh script
is because it was sourced directly into the pre-rc.d /etc/rc. If
we change it to be sourced in a sub-shell we will break rc.early scripts
that define/modify environment variables that later scripts depend on.

Cheers. 
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