Bridge config in /etc/rc (patch)

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> On Wed, 7 May 2003 . at babolo.ru wrote:
> > There no sed or grep in /bin or /sbin
> 
> This was another reason for my suggestion to keep the code simple, even if
> I forgot to say it. :) Anything involving networking has to be dead
> simple, because of some of the circular dependencies that you mentioned.
> 
> > Just as example - mount /usr from
> > nfs server, which is possible after
> > net setup, which is possible after
> > sed use, but sed will be useable latter...
> >
> > It's time to invent new command as
> > set bridge_* :-)
> 
> Yeah, that's more or less the direction I started heading mentally when I
> was trying to unravel a way to do the devfs stuff without completely
> losing my mind. I ultimately went a different direction for that
> particular problem, but the idea of a "variable finder" function in
> /etc/rc.subr is percolating back there somewhere. It sounds simple,
> until you take a look at how many variables are actually set by rc,
> infinitely variable user environments, etc....
Interesting... IF new builtin command will be written,
has it chance to be accepted?
such as "list prefix" lists all sh variables with
names prefix* ?
Or better expand ${prefix@} to list of variables ?
Or may be ${prefix*} or even ${*foo?bar} ?