[Nix-dev] [Nix-commits] SVN commit: nix - r32999 - nixos/trunk/modules/system/boot

[Eelco Dolstra]

On 11/03/12 23:31, Lluís Batlle i Rossell wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:29:44PM +0100, Eelco Dolstra wrote:
>> On 11/03/12 22:50, Lluís Batlle wrote:
>>
>>>    bootStage2 = pkgs.substituteAll {
>>>      src = ./stage-2-init.sh;
>>> +    shell = "${pkgs.bashInteractive}/bin/bash";
>>
>> The stage 2 shell should not be interactive.  The debug shell is a separate
>> thing from the shell executing the stage 2 script.
> 
> I did not think it was bad to use the interactive bash to execute the init
> script, and then the debug shell would simply call @shell at . We can have two bash
> references in it, if you want.

Actually, if you want an interactive bash from the debug shell, you can just
type "bash" on the command line.  No need to over-engineer something that very
few people should ever have a need to touch.  (The "setsid" is good, though, if
it makes Ctrl-C work.)

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Eelco Dolstra | http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~dolstra/