В Thu, 26 Sep 2013 15:08:54 +0200 Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko <phco...@gmail.com> пишет:
> Hello, all. Recently I made some order in hostdisk.c and getroot.c > involving splitting in OS-specific parts. > In the same time I added WinAPI version of getroot/hostdisk allowing > grub-probe to work on windows natively > Also on-going is AROS-specific parts. > Windows and AROS are not friendly with bash. > The attempt to make both multiple files of same type work and handling > whitespaces/newlines/... in filenames would result in very ugly code > with loads of evals. If we agree on bash as common denominator, bash has arrays which make this straightforward. Unless we want to continue support for bash 1.x. > Current code may have subtle assumptions on behaviour of common tools > like sed and on locale (E.g. "[a-z]" doesn't cover u if locale is Estonian). > So to check viability I rewrote grub-install in C. This is mostly proof > of concept with loads of FIXMEs but I could boot i386-pc install made > with it. In many aspects (static variables, some tests, general > structure) it's reminiscent of sh version of grub-install it's based on. > Some functionality is likely to stay OS-specific, e.g. executing > compressors or determining firmware. > > I'd like to know the opinion of other people on possible switchover. If > switched then it'll have to be all grub-install, grub-mkrescue, > grub-mknetdir and grub-mkstandalone. > I'd like to hear from other people.
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