\r360505-r360506
r360420:
lualoader config: don't call loader.getenv() as much
We don't actually need to fetch loader_conf_files as much as we do; we've
already fetched it once at the beginning, we only really need to fetch it
again after each file we've processed. If it changes, then we can stash that
off into our local prefiles.
While here, drop a note about the recursion so that I stop trying to
change it. It may very well make redundant some of the work we're doing, but
that's OK.
r360421:
lualoader: config: start exporting readConfFiles
In the process, change it slightly: readConfFiles will take a string like
loader_conf_files in addition to the loaded_files table that it normally
takes. This is to facilitate the addition of a read-conf CLI command, which
will just pass in the single file to read and an empty table.
r360422:
lualoader: cli: add read-conf
This is a straightforward match to the command used by many in forthloader;
it uses the newly-exported config.readConfFiles() to make sure that any
loader_conf_files gets done as appropriate.
r360423:
lualoader: cli: clobber loader_conf_files before proceeding
This makes sure that config.readConfFiles doesn't see a stale
loader_conf_files from before, in case the newly loaded file doesn't set it.
r360425:
config.lua(8): "may should" is not proper grammar
r360427:
config.lua(8): catch up to recently added hooks
While we're here, let's stylize these as functions instead of just raw text.
A future change may allow arbitrary data arguments to be passed some of
these, and the distinction is useful.
r360486:
loader.conf(5): document that loader_conf_files may be clobbered
A future change in lualoader may take some liberties with the
loader_conf_files in the name of efficiency; namely, it may start omitting
it from the loader environment entirely so that it doesn't need to worry
about maintaining any specific value.
This variable has historically been incredibly volatile anyways, as it may
get set to completely different values in any given configuration file to
trigger a load of more files.
Document now that we may not maintain it in the future, but perhaps we'll
reserve the right to change our minds and eventually formally export all of
the loader configuration files that were read using this variable.
r360505:
lualoader: config: add a table for restricted environment vars
This new table should be used for transient values that don't need to end up
in the loader environment. Generally, these will be things that are internal
details that really aren't needed or interesting outside of the config
module (e.g. if we changed how ${module}_* directives work, they might use
this instead).
To start, populate it with loader_conf_files. Any specific value of
loader_conf_files isn't all that interesting; if we're going to export it,
we should really instead export a loader_conf_files that indicates all of
the configuration files we processed. This will be used to reduce
bookkeeping overhead in a future commit that cleans up readConfFiles.
r360506:
lualoader: config: improve readConfFiles, rename to readConf
The previous interface was pretty bad, and required the caller to get some
implementation details correct that it really shouldn't need to (e.g.
loader_conf_files handling) and pass in an empty table for it to use.
The new and much improved interface, readConf, is much less of a hack;
hiding these implementation details and just doing the right thing.
config.lua will now use it to process /boot/defaults/loader.conf and the
subsequent loader_conf_files from there, and read-conf will also use it.
This improvement submitted by Olivier (cited below), loader_conf_files
handling from the original patch was changed to just clobber it before
processing and not bother restoring it after the fact following r360505
where it's now guaranteed to evade the loader environment.
PR: 244640