From eed91cae685e7456eb127d96dc5ad4c1c2df194a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kyle Evans Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 04:02:06 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] lualoader: Explain nextboot stuff a little bit more --- stand/lua/config.lua | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/stand/lua/config.lua b/stand/lua/config.lua index 46b911228815..98185d89cc23 100644 --- a/stand/lua/config.lua +++ b/stand/lua/config.lua @@ -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