[Splashy-devel] getpass/getstring

[Tim Dijkstra]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:18:06 -0400
"Luis Mondesi" <lemsx1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
> 
> I was just doing some digging around in Splashy and I noticed the
> getpass/getstring commands. I'm guessing this is Tim's work. Very
> nice!

Yes, it has been there for more than year, I think:)
 
> Now, during my tests I saw that if you do:
> 
> /sbin/splashy boot
> splashy_update "getpass word"
> 
> The "word" gets printed. You can type some string (and asterisks are
> echo'd back), then after pressing Enter, Splashy does not take any
> more commands from "splashy_update". Why is this? A bug

I'll have a look.

> I'm implementing the VERBOSE stuff again... And also the fsck
> detection... Just so you know.

Is this still based on grepping through the console output?

IMHO, it would be better to have the init-scripts that fsck or have
something to say call update-splashy. That way we get the information
we want, without nasty hacks.

grts Tim
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