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

[Yoshinori K. Okuji]

On Saturday 05 January 2008 12:49, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 02:34:38AM +0100, Yoshinori K. Okuji wrote:
> > 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.
>
> It's not exactly analogous.  bash doesn't commonly use variable hooks (if
> they even exist).

It has internally.

> Anyway, I wouldn't want to spend much time discussing this.  I assume my
> proposed change (propagating read/write hooks for global/exported
> variables) sounds fine?

Yes.

Okuji