From: "Brian May" <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>

On 10 October 2014 10:31, Peter Ross < Petros.Listig@fdrive.com.au > wrote: What else does it do better? It *can* replace annoying init.d scripts, that are deceptively hard to write, often are very buggy and suffer from various race conditions.

FreeBSD's /etc/rc.subr? https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/stable/10/etc/rc.subr?revision=272874

Yes, sure, well written init.d scripts wouldn't have these problems, however the fact is these problems do get into distributions, and often go unnoticed by the responsible maintainers. "It works for me!" --

It looks as most FreeBSD ports maintainers using this when adapting the software. It's definitely used in the base system. Regards Peter