scripts may use to source safely overrides in ${rc_conf_files}
files.
This protects users who insist on the bad practice of copying
/etc/defaults/rc.conf to /etc/rc.conf from a recursive loop
that exhausts available file descriptors.
Several people have expressed interest in breaking this function
out into its own shell script. Anyone who wants to embark on
such an undertaking would do well to study the attributed PR.
PR: 17595
Reported by: adrian
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
in the 3.x branch. Also remove the dependency on /usr to find the
boot address/interface.
Mostly-submitted-abd-tested-by: MIHIRA Sanpei Yoshiro <sanpei@sanpei.org>
case instead of test where appropriate, since case allows case is a sh
builtin and (as a side-effect) allows case-insensitivity.
Changes discussed on freebsd-hackers.
Submitted by: Doug Barton <Doug@gorean.org>
Sheldon Hearn
Luigi Rizzo
Peter Wemm
Jordan K. Hubbard
Matthew Dillon