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[Yar Tikhiy]

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 11:59:06PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> On 11/16/06, Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> wrote:
> >On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:18:50PM +0300, Andrew Pantyukhin wrote:
> >> On 10/15/06, Yar Tikhiy <yar at comp.chem.msu.su> wrote:
> >> >Hi folks,
> >>
> >> Great article, thanks!
> >
> >Thank you!
> >
> >> How about
> >> -eval "${rcvar}=\${${rcvar}:-'NO'}"
> >> +eval : \${${rcvar}='NO'}
> >> (a little more concise/readable; does not override
> >> explicit null value, which might not be valid, but
> >> should probably be respected all the same)
> >
> >The former expression agrees better with the current
> >style of rc.subr and rc.d; in particular, null and
> >unset values are treated the same.
> 
> I understand that you personally may be authoritative
> enough to make such statements, but it's not a matter
> of style. If null values were overridden, quite a lot
> of things would break right away. Try to "grep -h ^: *"
> in prefix/etc/rc.d on a box with a lot of packages
> installed and you'll see that only one or two percent
> of null variables are overridden.
> 
> Sorry if I misunderstand you completely.

Note that "grep ^: *" in /etc/rc.d finds nothing.  Also
note that _some_ rc.d variables can be sensitive to this
issue.  However, /etc/rc.subr doesn't tell unset state
from null state for those variables that don't need to
be sensitive.

Would you mind moving this thread to freebsd-rc?  It's
off-topic here, on freebsd-doc.

-- 
Yar