Re: bin/41946: rc.d should honour AB_SILENT

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/41946; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
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Subject: Re: bin/41946: rc.d should honour AB_SILENT
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 10:18:18 -0400

 On Aug 31,  7:00am, apb%cequrux.com@localhost (Alan Barrett) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/41946: rc.d should honour AB_SILENT
 
 |  The last step is tricky because there may be no writable file
 |  systems early in the boot, both /var/run and /tmp may be erased by
 |  rc.d scripts during the boot, and /usr/bin/tee is not available
 |  early in the boot.  Also, I can't easily keep stdout and stderr
 |  separate, so I am using the script's exit status (not the presence
 |  or absence of output on stderr) to detect errors.  I have it mostly
 |  working for the AB_SILENT case, but not for the non-silent case
 |  (which needs tee-like functionality).
 
 Andrew [@@@] was talking about using sysctl variable space as scratch
 space during boot.
 
 christos