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Wolfgang Denk
54841ab50c Make sure that argv[] argument pointers are not modified.
The hush shell dynamically allocates (and re-allocates) memory for the
argument strings in the "char *argv[]" argument vector passed to
commands.  Any code that modifies these pointers will cause serious
corruption of the malloc data structures and crash U-Boot, so make
sure the compiler can check that no such modifications are being done
by changing the code into "char * const argv[]".

This modification is the result of debugging a strange crash caused
after adding a new command, which used the following argument
processing code which has been working perfectly fine in all Unix
systems since version 6 - but not so in U-Boot:

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
	while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
/* ====> */	while (*++*argv) {
			switch (**argv) {
			case 'd':
				debug++;
				break;
			...
			default:
				usage ();
			}
		}
	}
	...
}

The line marked "====>" will corrupt the malloc data structures and
usually cause U-Boot to crash when the next command gets executed by
the shell.  With the modification, the compiler will prevent this with
an
	error: increment of read-only location '*argv'

N.B.: The code above can be trivially rewritten like this:

	while (--argc > 0 && **++argv == '-') {
		char *arg = *argv;
		while (*++arg) {
			switch (*arg) {
			...

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
Acked-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
2010-07-04 23:55:42 +02:00
Peter Tyser
3202d33169 Remove deprecated 'autoscr' command/variables
The more standard 'source' command provides identical functionality to
the autoscr command.

Environment variable names/values on the MVBC_P, MVBML7, kmeter1,
mgcoge, and km8xx boards are updated to no longer refernce 'autoscr'.

The 'autoscript' and 'autoscript_uname' environment variables are
also removed.

Signed-off-by: Peter Tyser <ptyser@xes-inc.com>
Acked-by: Andre Schwarz <andre.schwarz@matrix-vision.de>
Acked-by: Heiko Schocher <hs@denx.de>
2009-09-22 23:03:24 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
a89c33db96 General help message cleanup
Many of the help messages were not really helpful; for example, many
commands that take no arguments would not print a correct synopsis
line, but "No additional help available." which is not exactly wrong,
but not helpful either.

Commit ``Make "usage" messages more helpful.'' changed this
partially. But it also became clear that lots of "Usage" and "Help"
messages (fields "usage" and "help" in struct cmd_tbl_s respective)
were actually redundant.

This patch cleans this up - for example:

Before:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt         - Read temperature from digital thermometer and thermostat.

After:
	=> help dtt
	dtt - Read temperature from Digital Thermometer and Thermostat

	Usage:
	dtt

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2009-06-12 20:47:16 +02:00
Wolfgang Denk
74de7aefd7 Add "source" command; prepare removal of "autoscr" command
According to the doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt, the "autoscr"
command will be replaced by the "source" command in approximately 6
months from now.

This patch prepares this change and starts a 6 month transition
period as follows:

- The new "source" command has been added, which implements exactly
  the same functionlaity as the old "autoscr" command before
- The old "autoscr" command name is kept as an alias for compatibility
- Command sequences, script files atc. have been adapted to use the
  new "source" command
- Related environment variables ("autoscript", "autoscript_uname")
  have *not* been adapted yet; these will be renamed resp. removed in
  a separate patch when the support for the "autoscr" command get's
  finally dropped.

Signed-off-by: Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de>
2009-04-03 22:01:42 +02:00
Renamed from common/cmd_autoscript.c (Browse further)