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From: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de>
To: Jean-Christophe BEGUE <begue.jc@gmail.com>
Cc: barebox@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Programatically write in a file in the environnent with a hush command
Date: Wed, 27 May 2015 08:53:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150527065300.GP6325@pengutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABP==CLFeG59X3OyMxJrxTzWDg-Xm8dURb-k-JXu3as+pY5mKA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Jean-Christophe,

On Tue, May 26, 2015 at 05:41:06PM +0200, Jean-Christophe BEGUE wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm trying to pass a value from Barebox to the operating system, using
> the usreland command bareboxenv -l.
> 
> My problem is : How should I write that status from my hush barebox script?
> 
> echo $mystatus > /env/data/my_status_file
> 
> The above command doesn't work as '>' is not implemented.
> 
> I've the feeling that I'm missing something?

Besides the ways Alexander just mentioned you could also add something
to the kernel cmdline and parse /proc/cmdline later in userspace.
Still another possibility is to add nodes/properties to the device tree
using the of_* commands.

Sascha


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-27  6:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-26 15:41 Jean-Christophe BEGUE
2015-05-27  6:08 ` Alexander Richter
2015-05-27  6:24   ` Alexander Richter
2015-05-27  6:53 ` Sascha Hauer [this message]
2015-05-27 13:52   ` Jean-Christophe BEGUE

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