On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 05:24:09PM -0400, Martin Langhoff wrote: > Scraping it in shell is horrid, and the tests are mixed up (costly and > cheap tests) so -- I know it looks like a sloppy job, but there wasn't > anything pretty that I could do there. The point of the shell stage is > to do what we can cheaply before getting python involved.
Are you saying that you think the overhead of starting a single extra python interpreter is too high? Incidentally, I'm nominally the owner of olpc-netstatus (and, more generally, of olpc-netutils / olpc-utils) so please send me some patches. I suggest we break it up into a smaller shell programs or a D-Bus object, then rewrite both olpc-netstatus and your test in terms of those primitives. > In any case, this isn't compatible with Uy or with NYC, so it has to > go. We are back to trying to resolve "schoolserver" via DNS and > claiming victory if the RSA keys of the server match our expectations. Ick. Emiliano was asking me how we could include UY-XS detection in our initramfs so that we can make our theft-deterrence protocol work for them. Thoughts? Michael _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
