Re: proposed /etc/rc.d/staticroute change to allow variables

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 17 Oct 2011, David Brownlee wrote:
> Since ! has a well defined meaning in ifconfig.if, maybe use a 
> '$' or similar prefix to mean eval?

'!' already means 'eval this line' in ifconfig.if.  It was 
my suggestion to have it mean more or less the same thing in 
route.conf.

I see now that /etc/rc.d/network eval's each '!' line from 
ifconfig.if in a separate subshell, whereas the proposal for 
/etc/rc.d/staticroute is to eval all linesin the same subshell (so 
that variables set in one line may affect commands in a subsequent 
line).  I think it would make more sense for both rc.d/network and 
rc.d/staticroute to perform all the evals in the same subshell.

--apb (Alan Barrett)