On Fri, Dec 29, 2000 at 01:40:50PM +0100, Havard Eidnes wrote:

> And of course no distributed rc.d scripts have the .sh extension,
> causing the shell to fork at least once for each startup script.  This
> does of course provide for more robustness, but as several of you have
> observed, at a price.

it seems to me that a lot of the NetBSD-distributed scripts in /etc/rc.d
could be converted to .sh scripts, thus avoiding subshells.

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