I don't bite. You're affirming many of the claims while listing a few inconsistent counterexamples. This does not invalidate the original claims though, as, rel

I don't bite. You're affirming many of the claims while listing a few inconsistent counterexamples. This does not invalidate the original claims though, as, relative to the virtually complete lack of standardization in writing SysV rc scripts (LSB notwithstanding), it is in significantly stronger shape. There are indeed disparities in rc.conf and rc.subr between the BSDs, though probably not any more or even less so than disparities in LSB initscript frameworks. Really though, the primary reason to cite rc.d is to debunk the pants-on-head claim of shell script-based rc being intrinsically spaghetti and voodoo.