Author: kevans
Date: Sat Feb 24 04:02:06 2018
New Revision: 329903
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/329903

Log:
  lualoader: Explain nextboot stuff a little bit more

Modified:
  head/stand/lua/config.lua

Modified: head/stand/lua/config.lua
==============================================================================
--- head/stand/lua/config.lua   Sat Feb 24 03:48:52 2018        (r329902)
+++ head/stand/lua/config.lua   Sat Feb 24 04:02:06 2018        (r329903)
@@ -140,12 +140,17 @@ local function check_nextboot()
                    nextboot_file .. "'")
        end
 
+       -- Attempt to rewrite the first line and only the first line of the
+       -- nextboot_file. We overwrite it with nextboot_enable="NO", then
+       -- check for that on load. See: check_nextboot_enabled
+       -- It's worth noting that this won't work on every filesystem, so we
+       -- won't do anything notable if we have any errors in this process.
        local nfile = io.open(nextboot_file, 'w')
        if nfile ~= nil then
-               -- We're overwriting the first line of the file, so we need the
-               -- trailing space to account for the extra character taken up by
-               -- the string nextboot_enable="YES" -- our new end quotation
-               -- mark lands on the S.
+               -- We need the trailing space here to account for the extra
+               -- character taken up by the string nextboot_enable="YES"
+               -- Or new end quotation mark lands on the S, and we want to
+               -- rewrite the entirety of the first line.
                io.write(nfile, "nextboot_enable=\"NO\" ")
                io.close(nfile)
        end
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