Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser

[Fabian Greffrath <greffrath@leat.rub.de>]

Robert Millan schrieb:
> Sorry for the delay in repliing.  Been very busy :-(

No problem. ;)

> When run in the console it makes Linux spit a truckload of information about
> filesystem probing.  Is there any way we could avoid this?

I don't know why this happens since I allready divert stderr to 
/dev/null in the os-prober call. Maybe this is a bug in os-prober itself.

> How do you prevent it from detecting your own partition?  I didn't see any
> provisions for this.

I don't have to. That's the way os-prober works.

> Whops.  This tag (utf-8 stuff?) breaks the Linux shebang parser :-)

Yes, sorry. I am forced to store the file on a Windows partition in 
order to send it as an email attachment. Don't ask me about UTF8 and 
Windows. ;)

> Can we avoid hardcoding their absolute path?

Yes, via the 'which' command - as has been implemented in previous 
versions of this script. But back then you had objections against it...



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