lualoader: Explain nextboot stuff a little bit more

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Kyle Evans 2018-02-24 04:02:06 +00:00
parent d709f254c2
commit eed91cae68
Notes: svn2git 2020-12-20 02:59:44 +00:00
svn path=/head/; revision=329903

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@ -140,12 +140,17 @@ local function check_nextboot()
nextboot_file .. "'")
end
-- Attempt to rewrite the first line and only the first line of the
-- nextboot_file. We overwrite it with nextboot_enable="NO", then
-- check for that on load. See: check_nextboot_enabled
-- It's worth noting that this won't work on every filesystem, so we
-- won't do anything notable if we have any errors in this process.
local nfile = io.open(nextboot_file, 'w')
if nfile ~= nil then
-- We're overwriting the first line of the file, so we need the
-- trailing space to account for the extra character taken up by
-- the string nextboot_enable="YES" -- our new end quotation
-- mark lands on the S.
-- We need the trailing space here to account for the extra
-- character taken up by the string nextboot_enable="YES"
-- Or new end quotation mark lands on the S, and we want to
-- rewrite the entirety of the first line.
io.write(nfile, "nextboot_enable=\"NO\" ")
io.close(nfile)
end