Re: [Astlinux-devel] Adding a "spinner" indicator when e2fsck is working

[Lonnie A. <li...@lo...>]

On Aug 29, 2017, at 1:42 PM, Michael Keuter <li...@mk...> wrote:

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>> The initrd busybox config is not the problem, this is a fundamental problem using shell, though easily solved with bash, but bash is not a practical option with our initrd.
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>> Get exit status of process that's piped to another
>> https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/14270/get-exit-status-of-process-thats-piped-to-another
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>> I dont see an elegant solution.
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>> My only other thought would be to create a background "spinner" process, then call "e2fsck -y $1 >/dev/null" and status="$?" then stop the background spinner process.
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> Sounds not so bad, at least worth a test.
> BTW: Wasn't there a kind of mini-shell in busybox ("ash" or so)? 

Yes we are using the Busybox "ash" shell in the initrd.

Lonnie