On Mon 28 Jun 2010 08:04 -0500, Dan McGee wrote: > On Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 7:42 AM, Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 11:10 PM, Victor Lowther > > <victor.lowther@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Questions, comments, flames, etc. welcome. > > > > why go this way instead of the other? (clarification why go deeper > > into bash instead of trying to posix-ify the scripts) > > Because we are never going to eliminate arrays from rc.conf. Well, it may still be beneficial to some. The scripts could be used with a different style rc.conf in other environments.