[git commit master] builtin_read: note about better implementation

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Wed Jan 13 13:53:49 UTC 2010


commit: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=03d81ef43aca1808255d1a2a19ec394ed805eee8
branch: http://git.busybox.net/busybox/commit/?id=refs/heads/master

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
---
 shell/builtin_read.c |    5 +++++
 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/shell/builtin_read.c b/shell/builtin_read.c
index 412bcf8..73b0949 100644
--- a/shell/builtin_read.c
+++ b/shell/builtin_read.c
@@ -20,6 +20,11 @@
 #include "shell_common.h"
 #include "builtin_read.h"
 
+//TODO: use more efficient setvar() which takes a pointer to malloced "VAR=VAL"
+//string. hush naturally has it, and ash has setvareq().
+//Here we can simply store "VAR=" at buffer start and store read data directly
+//after "=", then pass buffer to setvar() to consume.
+
 const char* FAST_FUNC
 shell_builtin_read(void FAST_FUNC (*setvar)(const char *name, const char *val),
 	char       **argv,
-- 
1.6.3.3



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