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 <GPLv2> I know my rights; I want my phone call! <DRM> What use is a phone call… if you are unable to speak? (as seen on /.) _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
