cmd: add spawn and wait commands
Add a spawn command which runs another command in the background, as
well as a wait command to suspend the shell until one or more background
jobs have completed. The job_id environment variable is set by spawn and
wait accepts optional job ids, so that one can selectively wait on any
job.
Example:
=> date; spawn sleep 5; spawn sleep 3; date; echo "waiting..."; wait; date
Date: 2025-02-21 (Friday) Time: 17:04:52
Date: 2025-02-21 (Friday) Time: 17:04:52
waiting...
Date: 2025-02-21 (Friday) Time: 17:04:57
=>
Another example showing how background jobs can make initlizations
faster. The board is i.MX93 EVK, with one spinning HDD connected to
USB1 via a hub, and a network cable plugged into ENET1.
# From power up / reset
u-boot=> setenv autoload 0
u-boot=> setenv ud "usb start; dhcp"
u-boot=> time run ud
[...]
time: 8.058 seconds
# From power up / reset
u-boot=> setenv autoload 0
u-boot=> setenv ud "spawn usb start; spawn dhcp; wait"
u-boot=> time run ud
[...]
time: 4.475 seconds
Signed-off-by: Jerome Forissier <jerome.forissier@linaro.org>
Acked-by: Ilias Apalodimas <ilias.apalodimas@linaro.org>
diff --git a/cmd/Makefile b/cmd/Makefile
index 8f0cee8..80cf70b 100644
--- a/cmd/Makefile
+++ b/cmd/Makefile
@@ -239,6 +239,8 @@
obj-$(CONFIG_HUSH_SELECTABLE) += cli.o
+obj-$(CONFIG_CMD_SPAWN) += spawn.o
+
obj-$(CONFIG_ARM) += arm/
obj-$(CONFIG_RISCV) += riscv/
obj-$(CONFIG_SANDBOX) += sandbox/