Re: Proposal: Linux "hit-list"

Craig Schlenter (schz@kidd.co.za)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 08:39:09 +0200 (GMT+0200)


On Mon, 19 Feb 1996, Mike Castle wrote:

> Amazingly enough Craig Schlenter said:
> > Perhaps if the kernel make procedure popped up a notice about the
> > existance of the file and then refused to continue until the user typed
> > yes or something it would help. Of course the 'yes' thing could be
> > bypassed by setting a flag in the makefile so that it would be a first
> > time only situation ...
>
> .hitlist: Documentation/hit-list
> echo Please be sure to read Documentation/hit-list for info
> echo on recent necessary software updates.
> echo Hit ENTER to continue building kernel.
> <some fancy command to wait for key hit>
> touch .hitlist
>
> Should notify you everytime, right?

Yep. And for those of us who don't want to hit enter, how about changing
the touch .hitlist to something like:

if ! (test -f .I_dont_wanna_hit_enter) then touch .hitlist; fi

--Craig