> About the fourth patch I'm unsure. The current description of the option
> '--no-reread' is "skip partition re-read at boot". With "boot" is meant
> "program startup", so that needs to be corrected. But the real effect of
> --no-reread seems to be to just check that the relevant partition is not
> in use. Is that correct?
Yes.
> By the way, I don't understand why the options -g (--show-geometry) and
> -G (show-pt-geometry) are listed under "Dangerous options". How can
> they be dangerous when they just show things?
Hmm.. not sure.
> Also I do not understand the descriptions of the new options --nested,
> --chained, and --onesector. How is "disjoint" different from "mutually
> disjoint"? Would the following attempts at description be correct?
>
> --nested each logical and extended partition falls within an extended one
> --chained each logical partition falls within an extended one
> --onesector not any partition falls within another
The original comment from code:
/* There are two common ways to structure extended partitions:
as nested boxes, and as a chain. Sometimes the partitions
must be given in order. Sometimes all logical partitions
must lie inside the outermost extended partition.
NESTED: every partition is contained in the surrounding partitions
and is disjoint from all others.
CHAINED: every data partition is contained in the surrounding partitions
and disjoint from all others, but extended partitions may lie outside
(insofar as allowed by all_logicals_inside_outermost_extended).
ONESECTOR: all data partitions are mutually disjoint; extended partitions
each use one sector only (except perhaps for the outermost one).
*/
The default is NESTED and "inside the outermost extended partition".
> The fourteenth patch adds the missing "[options]" to the usage synopsis
> of scriptreplay, and also indicates the timingfile argument as optional.
> However, I find this a bit misleading: the timingfile is only optional when
> it is specified via the -t option. Wouldn't it be better to describe the
> command with two alternative synopses, as follows?
>
> Usage: scriptreplay timingfile [typescript [divisor]]
> or: scriptreplay [options] [timingfile] [typescript] [divisor]
scriptreplay [options] [-t] timingfile [typescript [divisor]]
?
Karel
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