Re: Proposal: Linux "hit-list"

Jared Mauch (jared@wolverine.hq.cic.net)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 14:17:35 -0500 (EST)


Great, please check my page, and let me know what I'm missing.

http://puck.nether.net/~jared

- Jared

Craig Schlenter spewed:
> 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
>