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[ui] Add progress dots while waiting on any foreground job

Print one dot per second while waiting in monojob.c (e.g. for DHCP,
for file downloads, etc.), to inform user that the system has not
locked up.

Patch contributed by Andrew Schran <aschran@google.com>, minor
modification by me.
tags/v0.9.4
Michael Brown 16 years ago
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1 changed files with 10 additions and 3 deletions
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      src/core/monojob.c

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src/core/monojob.c View File

@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
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 #include <gpxe/keys.h>
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 #include <gpxe/job.h>
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 #include <gpxe/monojob.h>
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+#include <gpxe/timer.h>
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 /** @file
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  *
@@ -62,9 +63,11 @@ struct job_interface monojob = {
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 int monojob_wait ( const char *string ) {
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 	int key;
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 	int rc;
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+	tick_t last_progress_dot;
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-	printf ( "%s... ", string );
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+	printf ( "%s.", string );
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 	monojob_rc = -EINPROGRESS;
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+	last_progress_dot = currticks();
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 	while ( monojob_rc == -EINPROGRESS ) {
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 		step();
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 		if ( iskey() ) {
@@ -78,14 +81,18 @@ int monojob_wait ( const char *string ) {
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 				break;
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 			}
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 		}
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+		if ( ( currticks() - last_progress_dot ) > TICKS_PER_SEC ) {
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+			printf ( "." );
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+			last_progress_dot = currticks();
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+		}
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 	}
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 	rc = monojob_rc;
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 done:
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 	if ( rc ) {
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-		printf ( "%s\n", strerror ( rc ) );
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+		printf ( " %s\n", strerror ( rc ) );
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 	} else {
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-		printf ( "ok\n" );
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+		printf ( " ok\n" );
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 	}
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 	return rc;
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 }

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