One problem with writing it in C is people setting up a server for
	a diskless client (particularly a non NetBSD server).

	If we mandate a recent enough ksh/sh variant then we can probably
	get quite exotic with shell functions...


		David/absolute

On Wed, 29 Dec 1999, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> [ On , December 29, 1999 at 11:46:53 (-0800), Chris G. Demetriou wrote: ]
> > Subject: Re: init creating mfs /dev automatically
> >
> > It might well make sense to move /dev/MAKEDEV to /etc, as well...
> 
> or perhaps into /sbin....
> 
> Perhaps it would also make sense to do a redesign/rewrite that would
> read a control/config file from /etc too.
> 
> I've considered doing this myself several times (almost every time I've
> been in the script fixing it or adding anything to it! :-), but I've not
> yet dreampt up a nice extensible configuration file format that I liked.
> 
> If I were to do this I would probably write it in C too, even though I'm
> not sure there's any tremendous advantage to doing so (eliminating shell
> scripting issues might be nice, and the potential for more efficiency
> is attractive to, so perhaps the combination make it worthwhile).
> 
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