On Tue, Jun 03, 2014 at 07:19:55AM -0500, Rob Landley wrote: > It's got basic flag parsing and is autodetecting bind and loopback > mounts, but no support for remount or fstab yet. Neat! mount is the last bit of what I needed for setting up a small rootfs; I didn't want to submit in-tree documentation until everything needed was in a usable state.
> You may notice the new xpopen() infrastructure in lib, which shells out > to an xexec() with stdin/stdout/stderr captured via pipes. That's a > thing I've needed for a while so we can fork and call other local > commands without needing an exec. (Doesn't do xexec_optargs() but I > haven't thought of a case needing i/o capture for that yet.) Is this going to be part of the plumbing for decompression? (I seem to recollect talk about using fork & xexec with pipes to handle stuff like decompressing tarballs...) > I need to update the documentation. I'm getting to the point where > there's enough material I might need separate tutorial and reference > versions, except keeping duplicate copies of the same information in > sync is never fun. Maybe I can leverage toys/example harder... > > Rob I've been wondering if there should be more things in there myself. > > (It's singular/plural names that really screw me up. lib is singular, > scripts is plural, toys is plural, toys/example is singular... Sigh. I > can never remember if various websites have "download" or "downloads", > but then my own website has "writing" singular "and "talks" plural...) Just to be pedantic: isn't lib collective? ;) At first I occasionally typo'd toys/example as toys/examples, but it's not really worthy of a change as far as I can tell. (Reminds me of a comment about how _change_, without a justification, is not good, nor even neutral: learning the new approach is a real cost.) Thanks, Isaac Dunham _______________________________________________ Toybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net
