Usage of the err() inside rc.d scripts

[Eygene Ryabinkin]

Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 12:49:18PM +0300, Mike Telahun Makonnen wrote:
> IIRC it's used in NetBSD as a fallback for very slow machines, on
> which forking a large number of processes, would delay start up too
> long.  It exists in FreeBSD because at the time rc.d was introduced
> into FreeBSD we tried not to diverge from NetBSD too much.  The idea
> was that a script from a NetBSD machine should be able to run on a
> FreeBSD machine and vice versa.  However, that has been (mostly)
> abandoned now and over the past few years most of the NetBSD
> compatibility shims have been removed. I don't know if anyone uses
> this feature on FreeBSD (embedded systems maybe?).

OK, thanks for clarification.  I think that the request to the
-current@, -stable@ and -embedded@ asking for any users of the
rc_fast_and_loose will give a better overview of its current users.
I'll post the question to these lists.
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