Re: [RFC] Don't pass filename in multiboot command line

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Aug 01, 2009 at 05:13:27PM +0200, Vladimir 'phcoder' Serbinenko wrote:
> >> > There's a much simpler way to address this.  Just add something like:
> >> >
> >> >  cmdline_argv = argv + 1;
> >> >  cmdline_argc = argc - 1;
> >> >
> >> > at the beginning, and then use cmdline_argv and cmdline_argc instead of
> >> > correcting the off-by-one every time.
> >> Correcting the numbers is actually smaller part of the patch. The most
> >> of it is to make empty commandlines to be handled correctly (this
> >> couldn't happen previously)
> >
> > Either there's an extra argv member that is always present and we want
> > to remove, or there's the possibility that the command-line is empty.
> > AFAICS we can't have both problems.
> >
> No. Now we have an extra element that is always present and we want to
> remove but when we remove command line can be empty and code must
> handle it correctly.

Please try this patch.

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Robert Millan

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