Re: Fixing xvif(4) names, yet again

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Apr 06, 2011 at 12:43:36PM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Apr 2011 13:14:05 +0200, Manuel Bouyer
> <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:
> >why does rc.conf cares about xvif interfaces ? they exists only
> >once domUs have been started, which happens long after network
> >has been set up on dom0 ...
> 
> If you issue a /etc/rc.d/network restart with present xvif(4) and
> "auto_ifconfig" enabled, the rc.d/network will look for
> ifconfig_xvifXXX variables [1] . Given the eval line, it won't get
> the correct variable due to sh POSIX conventions for shell
> variables.

but why would there be a ifconfig_xvifXXX variable anyway ?
as these names are more or less random anyway, it wouldn't
make sense to have these in rc.conf ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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