Note: this might print failure messages on some systems, unfortunatly
the info from the device, stating if flushing is supported, cannot be trusted
so the operation is always issued on all devices, just in case...
We can't remove the sourcing of /etc/rc.devfs yet in case the user
might have custom entries in it. We will have to come up with an
/etc/devfs.rules or something to make this kind of thing easier.
Approved by: markm (mentor)(implicit)
* Add a paragraph suggesting that the merge option be used only for
files that users have modified. People have been using this option
for all files that are different, causing unecessary confusion.
The idea for this option came from Marc Schneiders <marc@schneiders.org>
* I've been meaning to remove the code that checked for the existence of
/etc/sysconfig for a while now, since that file was last seen in 2.2.2.
* Replace the above with a check for elements of the old rc system.
Offer to move these files out of DESTDIR/etc for the user's convenience.
Due to the use of signed vs. unsigned chars on our various platforms, one gets
"warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type"
from GCC 3.3.
just return it. Don't try to reinitialize it. This should fix a
number of inconsistencies that some people encountered with "vinum
start".
PR: 30588
PR: 43475
All functionality from the previous system has been preserved, and
users should still customize their system boot with the familiar
methods, rc.conf, rc.conf.local, rc.firewall, sysctl.conf, etc.
Users who have customized versions of scripts that have been removed
should take great care when upgrading, since the compatibility code
that used those old scripts has also been removed.
double free of a mbuf occurs and cause an immediate panic, rather
than allowing free list corruption to occur.
This code is trapped under INVARIANTS, so it should not cause any
change in default performance.
Reviewed by: a bunch of people on -net
MFC after: 1 week
