Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh: rewrite to make user friendly & easier to maintain

[Eric Blake]

On 06/05/2014 07:47 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> The current script isn't terribly friendly -- you basically get one chance
> to run it per boot w/out manually recovering the system state.
> 
> It also doesn't lend itself to being made into an init script w/out a lot
> of manual editing.
> 
> Rewrite the sucker with proper functions so that people can easily run it
> and integrate into their system, and make it easier for CPU maintainers
> to add new targets.
> 
> There's also a few fixes smattered about, but considering the whole file
> has been written from scratch, not sure they need splitting out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <address@hidden>
> ---
>  scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh | 306 
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 240 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
>  mode change 100644 => 100755 scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh

> +++ b/scripts/qemu-binfmt-conf.sh
> @@ -1,72 +1,246 @@
>  #!/bin/sh

No copyright or license notice?


> +
> +usage() {
> +  local ret="${1:-0}"

'local' is a bashism, not compatible with /bin/sh of dash on Debian
based systems.


> +
> +# Usage: has <needle> <list of haystack items>
> +# See if <needle> can be found in <haystack>.
> +has() {
> +  local needle="$1"

and again (I'll quit pointing it out)


> +# Make sure the binfmt_misc filesystem is ready for us to use.
> +BINFMT_MISC="/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc"
> +binfmt_init() {
> +  if ${dryrun}; then
> +    return 0
> +  fi
> +  if [ ! -d ${BINFMT_MISC} ]; then

Underquoted.  Just because $BINFMT_MISC currently happens to not need
quoting based on the definition 5 lines above shouldn't give you the
excuse to get lazy.

> +    modprobe binfmt_misc
> +  fi
> +  if [ ! -f ${BINFMT_MISC}/register ]; then

Underquoted.

> +    mount binfmt_misc -t binfmt_misc ${BINFMT_MISC}

Underquoted.

> +# Register the specified magic.
> +register() {
> +  local fmt="$1"
> +  local arch="$2"
> +  local path="$(find_qemu "${arch}")"
> +  local magic=":${arch}:${fmt}:${path}:"
> +
> +  unregister "$@"
> +
> +  if [ -z "${path}" ]; then
> +    echo "${arch}: Could not locate a qemu binary"
> +  else
> +    decho "${arch}: would register using ${path}"
> +    decho "${arch}: echo '${magic}' > ${BINFMT_MISC}/register"
> +    if ! ${dryrun}; then
> +      if ! echo "${magic}" > ${BINFMT_MISC}/register; then

Underquoted.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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