Re: [PATCH] setkey fails and causes GRUB to crash.

[OKUJI Yoshinori]

From: Daniel Pittman <address@hidden>
Subject: [PATCH] setkey fails and causes GRUB to crash.
Date: 09 Oct 2000 23:34:17 +1100

> It seems that no one must have tried to use the 'setkey' command in GRUB
> before today.

  Be not so ironic. Such a statement could make your image bad.

> Code inspection says that the issue would be present at that time also.
> The attached patch is a fairly trivial change to the effected routine to
> make it test for a NULL pointer before doing the strcmp.

  Thanks. I'll apply your patch.

> [1]  Would there be interest in having this contributed back to GRUB
>      when I have it - or the script to turn a Linux keymap into a GRUB
>      keymap?

  Of course. My plan is to bundle keymap translation files with GRUB,
so that the user can include one of them in his/her configuration file
by the command "include" (which is not implemented yet).

Okuji