Re: opening new context (was: [PATCH] allow user-configurable menucolor)

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Friday 04 January 2008 09:02, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 06:04:59PM +0200, Vesa Jääskeläinen wrote:
> > About new context:
> >
> > Shouldn't new context have clone of it's parent contexts settings?
>
> I wouldn't want to change that without having some input from whoever
> designed (or understands) grub_env_export().  There's probably a reason for
> it, although I can't see it.

It is analogous to bash. If you invoke another bash from bash, that won't 
inherit variables, unless they are exported.

Besides that, I think it is a good thing that some kind of "clean room" 
or "sandbox" is guaranteed.

Okuji