From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1JNy5g-0002Rm-8d for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:22:32 -0500 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNy5e-0002Pg-Hx for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:22:30 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JNy5d-0002OD-8x for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:22:29 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JNy5c-0002No-T9 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:22:28 -0500 Received: from aybabtu.com ([69.60.117.155]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JNy5c-00031E-Hs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 17:22:28 -0500 Received: from [192.168.10.6] (helo=thorin) by aybabtu.com with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JNy5Z-0001uo-C4 for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:22:27 +0100 Received: from rmh by thorin with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1JNxsb-0006cG-Cs for grub-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Feb 2008 23:09:01 +0100 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 23:09:01 +0100 From: Robert Millan To: The development of GRUB 2 Message-ID: <20080209220901.GC25086@thorin> References: <20080208161855.GA19377@thorin> <200802092103.09542.okuji@enbug.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200802092103.09542.okuji@enbug.org> Organization: free as in freedom X-Message-Flag: Worried about Outlook viruses? Switch to Thunderbird! www.mozilla.com/thunderbird X-Debbugs-No-Ack: true User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. Subject: Re: [PATCH] if timeout is set to zero, don't bother drawing the menu X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:22:30 -0000 On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:03:09PM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote: > 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. Ok, so you suggest: read --timeout N --verbose --interruptible ? -- Robert Millan I know my rights; I want my phone call! What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.)