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Re: [PATCH] Making exported variables really global


From: Andreas Vogel
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Making exported variables really global
Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2012 17:16:22 +0100
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Am 04.03.2012 15:10, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko:
> On 04.03.2012 14:47, Andreas Vogel wrote:
>> Am 04.03.2012 14:18, schrieb Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko:
>>> On 04.03.2012 14:08, Andreas Vogel wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> This tiny patch makes exported variables really global. Right now
>>>> exported variables are set in the context of a submenu when running
>>>> it.
>>>> But any changes to those vars are lost when leaving the submenu. This
>>>> patch sets and exports all vars in the calling context for the submenu
>>>> which are exported in the context of the submenu.
>>> We follow the bash behaviour. And the bash behaviour is exactly what
>>> GRUB does:
>>> address@hidden:14:15:11:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ bash
>>> address@hidden:14:15:15:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ export XYZ=x
>>> address@hidden:14:15:19:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ exit
>>> address@hidden:14:15:20:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ echo $XYZ
>>>
>>> address@hidden:14:15:24:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$
>>>
>> I understand your point, but IMHO we do need to be able to set global
>> vars in submenus, that's my patch about.
>>
>> Otherwise how can you use a "Settings..." submenu to configure
>> environment variables which are used by other menu entries for booting?
>> The analogy with bash is not useful here.
> We can add a command with traits of both "menuentry" (same context,
> same menu) and "submenu" (new context, new menu), sth like
> submemu_source (same context, new menu) 
Yes, that's one possible solution.

Why establishing a new command instead of using an option for submenu,
let's say "--export 0|1"?





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