Bug#383249: usplash: add support for user input

[David Härdeman <david@2gen.com>]

On Wed, August 16, 2006 13:31, maximilian attems said:
> nice to see you back, :-)

Thank you :) I'm slowly getting up to speed on what's happened while I've
been gone

> On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, David Härdeman wrote:
>
>> Some startup scripts (e.g. cryptsetup) require user input during the
>> boot which means that usplash exits. It would be nice if user input
>> support could somehow be added to usplash.
>
> yes,
> as quick workaround cryptsetup hook can shut down usplash and fire
> it up again when it got the anser.

Sounds like a reasonable workaround for now. Is there a recommended way
for a initramfs script to detect whether usplash is running? Should it
just look for usplash_write and use it, if present, to attempt the
shutdown unconditionally?

Regards,
David