Joey Hess schrieb:
Fraser Campbell wrote:
Loading the second floppy, some dots or a spinning cursor would be useful here just to show meaningful progress.
I agree, though it will take some shell magic, since all I have is POSIX shell, and the following command:
zcat floppy/initrd.gz > mnt/tmp-initrd
To get a spinner, it would probably have to fork off a program that just spins, and then kill it when done. I'll get to it eventually.
IMHO this is a bad idea. Because if something fails it leaves the user in the wrong impression, that something is going on and he needs to wait. I think no indicator is better than one indicating "false" progress.
A better solution would be to watch the size of mnt/tmp-initrd with this forked programm and use that as progress indicator.
gaudenz
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