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: > phcoder@debian.x201.phnet:14:15:11:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ bash > phcoder@debian.x201.phnet:14:15:15:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ export XYZ=x > phcoder@debian.x201.phnet:14:15:19:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ exit > phcoder@debian.x201.phnet:14:15:20:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ echo $XYZ > > phcoder@debian.x201.phnet:14:15:24:~/grub2/bzr/mainline$ > 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. _______________________________________________ Grub-devel mailing list Grub-devel@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/grub-devel
