rcvar function in rc.subr

[Florent Thoumie]

Yar Tikhiy wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2006 at 03:33:23PM +0100, Florent Thoumie wrote:
>> Does anybody have a clue why /etc/rc.d/foo rcvar prints a leading '$'
>> before the variable name? Doesn't make much sense with /bin/sh.
> 
> Sorry for the late reply.  According to the CVS history, the code
> was just imported from NetBSD.  Perhaps it's too late to change it
> as people are likely to have workarounds for it already.  Of course,
> $foo_enable=YES looks ugly and has a different meaning in sh(1).

Well, it may be worth fixing in HEAD even if we don't MFC the change.

-- 
Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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