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Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser
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Robert Millan |
Subject: |
Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:10:25 +0100 |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 04:18:42PM +0100, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> >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.
They're printed directly by Linux. No idea how to stop that, but I don't think
this problem is a showstopper anyway (they're always printed to /dev/console).
> >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.
Ok.
> >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. ;)
Argh.. :-)
> >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...
I prefer which myself, but IIRC Okuji said this isn't as much portable. The
alternative is to do it like grub-install:
set $grub_setup dummy
if test -f "$1"; then
:
else
echo "$1: Not found." 1>&2
exit 1
fi
which is very ugly if you ask me. Okuji, do you have any comments on this?
--
Robert Millan
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(as seen on /.)
- Re: [NEW PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments, Robert Millan, 2008/03/03
- Re: [NEW PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments, Robert Millan, 2008/03/03
- Re: [NEW PATCH] Add option to grub-probe to accept system devices as arguments, Fabian Greffrath, 2008/03/04
- [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser, Fabian Greffrath, 2008/03/05
- Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser, Fabian Greffrath, 2008/03/13
- Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser, Robert Millan, 2008/03/19
- Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser, Fabian Greffrath, 2008/03/19
- Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser,
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- Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser, Fabian Greffrath, 2008/03/20
- Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser, Robert Millan, 2008/03/20
- Re: [NEW PATCH] os-prober output parser, Fabian Greffrath, 2008/03/25