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Re: grub.cfg parser still doesn't abort on error


From: Yoshinori K. Okuji
Subject: Re: grub.cfg parser still doesn't abort on error
Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2008 14:09:21 +0100
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On Sunday 03 February 2008 11:55, Robert Millan wrote:
> You mean it is intentional?  I think it's a bad plan to assume user will
> check for error status of each command, specially in situations like
> font/gfxterm.

It is quite intentional. This behavior is consistent with Bash and GRUB 
Legacy. The concept is that the user still gets something, even if there is a 
small error. Since GRUB supports rewriting menu entries at runtime, this is 
generally a good thing.

Okuji




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