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 _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
