Re: [RFC] grub-install C rewrite

[Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>]

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В Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:08:54 +0200
Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phcoder@gmail.com> пишет:

> Hello, all. Recently I made some order in hostdisk.c and getroot.c
> involving splitting in OS-specific parts.
> In the same time I added WinAPI version of getroot/hostdisk allowing
> grub-probe to work on windows natively
> Also on-going is AROS-specific parts.
> Windows and AROS are not friendly with bash.
> The attempt to make both multiple files of same type work and handling
> whitespaces/newlines/... in filenames would result in very ugly code
> with loads of evals.

If we agree on bash as common denominator, bash has arrays which
make this straightforward. Unless we want to continue support for bash
1.x.

> Current code may have subtle assumptions on behaviour of common tools
> like sed and on locale (E.g. "[a-z]" doesn't cover u if locale is Estonian).
> So to check viability I rewrote grub-install in C. This is mostly proof
> of concept with loads of FIXMEs but I could boot i386-pc install made
> with it. In many aspects (static variables, some tests, general
> structure) it's reminiscent of sh version of grub-install it's based on.
> Some functionality is likely to stay OS-specific, e.g. executing
> compressors or determining firmware.
> 
> I'd like to know the opinion of other people on possible switchover. If
> switched then it'll have to be all grub-install, grub-mkrescue,
> grub-mknetdir and grub-mkstandalone.
> I'd like to hear from other people.


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