getkey should have a flag that makes it echo the key that was pressed. This could be used to allow rc.sysinit to have multiple entries like "Press 'I' to enter interactive startup."
Created attachment 142243 [details] patch against getkey.c from initscripts-8.45.6
Not sure what you mean by 'this could be used'... it's normally echoed anyway.
Not to stdout. This patch lets you do stuff like: echo "Do you wanna? [Y/N]" ch=$(getkey -k YN) if [ "$ch" == "Y" ]; then ...
Can't you just use 'read' for that? (The reason getkey is used in rc.sysinit is so it can read something without actually prompting.)
Right. So if you wanted to have multiple options at startup, say: Press 'I' to enter interactive startup. Press 'T' to start in text mode. You'd need to be able to differentiate between 'I' and 'T' being pressed. Perhaps, though, something more robust could be written to do a proper startup menu.
I'd prefer something else. 'T' wouldn't necessarily work right, other than calling 'telinit' at the end of rc.sysinit.
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I think we agree that the feature I was proposing here is still a good idea, but this implementation is not the best way to do it. Closing NOTABUG.