Little problem and questions about hotplug init script

[Frank Murphy <murphyf+hotplug@f-m.fm>]

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I've been looking at some of the hotplug stuff, and I found a typo and another 
problem in the init.d/rc.d script. It also prompts some questions for me.

I've attached a diff as well as the whole script with the changes,

My first question is about the /var/lock/subsys/hotplug lock file. What is it 
supposed to be locking? Because for the force-reload case, it doesn't work 
properly (a lockfile exists during startup, but not afterwards -- the exact 
opposite of what would happen if the script were called first with stop, then 
start).

My second question is about the /etc/init.d/functions. I assume that each 
distribution has a different method for these init scripts, so the version 
that ships with hotplug is more of a reference implementation that will be 
modified. Seeing as this version doesn't use any included functions, and 
hotplug doesn't ship with this functions file, perhaps this should be 
deleted?

My third question is about the description at the top. Why are the comment 
lines followed by a backslash (\) ? Is there some tool being used to parse 
these?

Thanks for any help.

Frank


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--- hotplug	2003-07-09 13:24:09.000000000 +0200
+++ hotplug.old	2003-07-09 13:24:58.000000000 +0200
@@ -20,30 +20,35 @@
         . /etc/rc.d/init.d/functions
 fi
 
-run_rc_files () {
-    for RC in /etc/hotplug/*.rc
-    do
-        $RC $1
-    done
-}
-
 case "$1" in
     start|restart|status)
-        run_rc_files $1
+        for RC in /etc/hotplug/*.rc
+        do
+            $RC $1
+        done
         touch /var/lock/subsys/hotplug
         ;;
     stop)
-        run_rc_files $1
+        for RC in /etc/hotplug/*.rc
+        do
+            $RC stop
+        done
         rm -f /var/lock/subsys/hotplug
         ;;
     force-reload)
-        run_rc_files stop
-        run_rc_files start
+        for RC in /etc/hotplug/*.rc
+        do
+            $RC stop
+        done
+        for RC in /etc/hotplug/*.rc
+        do
+            $RC start
+        done
         rm -f /var/lock/subsys/hotplug
         ;;
 
     *)
-        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|force-reload}"
+        echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|restart|status|force_reload}"
         exit 3
         ;;
 esac