From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] if timeout is set to zero, don't bother drawing the menu
Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 21:03:09 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802092103.09542.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080208161855.GA19377@thorin>
On Friday 08 February 2008 17:18, Robert Millan wrote:
> Fixes an ugly result of setting timeout=0.
>
> When this is combined with the "sleep" patch I just sent, user can
> implement hiddenmenu-like functionality via scripting:
>
> echo -n "Press `ESC' to enter the menu... "
> if sleep -v -i 10 ; then
> set timeout=10
> else
> set timeout=0
> fi
I think this is a bit strange. I don't think anybody expects that "sleep"
outputs a counter or is interrupted by a key input. It is too different from
POSIX's sleep.
My preference is rather to extend "read". Bash's "read" accepts a timeout and
some other options.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-09 20:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-08 16:18 [PATCH] if timeout is set to zero, don't bother drawing the menu Robert Millan
2008-02-09 10:59 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-09 20:03 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2008-02-09 22:09 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 7:10 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-02-10 12:55 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-10 20:07 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-02-10 20:24 ` Isaac Dupree
2008-02-28 10:57 ` Robert Millan
2008-02-28 22:25 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2008-03-03 22:22 ` Robert Millan
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