[ipxe-devel] show git version (was: Re: [resending] truncate menu title)

[Christian Hesse]

Christian Hesse <list at eworm.de> on Wed, 2012/07/04 09:38:
> Michael Brown <mbrown at fensystems.co.uk> on Tue, 2012/07/03 17:07:
> > On Tuesday 03 Jul 2012 16:58:14 Christian Hesse wrote:
> > > > > The attached one should be correct. We should not count the null
> > > > > byte.
> > > > 
> > > > strlen() returns the length of a string excluding the terminating NUL.
> > > 
> > > You are right... But sizeof() returns 81 (MENU_COLS + 1) in this case.
> > > So how about this?
> > 
> > snprintf() requires the size of the buffer (including space for the
> > terminating NUL), so sizeof(buf) is correct.
> 
> Hmm, everything seems to work fine now. I was hunting a ghost.
> Probably I reverted my local patch but did not pull from upstream... Sorry
> for the noise.

This brings a new idea to my mind - could be useful to have the git version
printed when booting.
I broke the line in main.c as it was longer than 80 characters and did not
fit the terminal width.

Feed free to apply and/or modify to your needs.
-- 
main(a,b){char*/*    Schoene Gruesse                         */c="B?IJj;M"
"EHCX:;";for(a/*    Chris           get my mail address:    */=0;b=c[a++];)
putchar(b-1/(/*               gcc -o sig sig.c && ./sig    */b/42*2-3)*42);}
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