Re: Normal mode commands

[Marco Gerards]

"Yoshinori K. Okuji" <address@hidden> writes:

[...]

> > > No, most commands should be implemented in modules. Why not?
> >
> > In that case I wonder why the terminal and rescue commands are not in
> > a module.
> 
> Don't trust the current implementation so much. Even PUPA has a number 
> of "bad things" due to lack of time.
> 
> The basic is to make things as dynamic as possible. So you should only 
> include commands which are required to load other modules in the normal 
> mode itself.
> 
> I think rescue should be in the normal mode by default, because this 
> command is essential if the normal mode goes mad. The command terminal 
> could be in a separate module.

Ok, I agree.

> > > So if you want to keep the same behavior, I'd like to change the
> > > name of this command.
> >
> > Sure.  What would be a good name?
> 
> I have no good idea. Do you have any?

No.  Perhaps it would be better to use ls like you showed.

> > > pupa> ls (*)/boot/vmlinuz*
> >
> > This looks interesting.
> >
> > > I don't know if this syntax is good, though.
> >
> > I don't see any problems, why?
> 
> The part "(*)" looks ugly to me.

Well, its syntax is correct.  Bash is not a really nice language.

[...]

> > Right.  How will root and rootverify differ for PUPA?
> 
> Please forget rootverify. It is not very useful.

Ok.

Thanks,
Marco