On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 11:29:58PM +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: > hi, > > Previously, the check for new assignments was incorrect, and it happened > to ignored assignments which did not result in a buffer reallocation > by the Forth interpreter (essentially, any string not longer > than the current one was ignored). > > An annoying side effect of the fix is that now people who (mistakenly) > copied /boot/defaults/loader.conf into /boot/loader.conf (and > possibly edit it), now create a loop because their /boot/loader.conf > now contains > > loader_conf_files="/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf > /boot/loader.conf.local" > > which is not just a pure assignments. > > I think we should remove the use of loader_conf_files=... > from /boot/defaults/loader.conf, partly to prevent this kind > of bugs, and partly because it is nice to have only "pure assigments" > in this file. > > If there are no objections, i will look at how to do it. > Probably this requires putting the initial list of files > somewhere else, probably in /boot/loader.rc after the > > include /boot/loader.4th > > statement. > > Comments ?
That sounds good, thanks for working on this. Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"