[syslinux] Patch: Allow args with spaces

Coe, Colin C. (Unix Engineer) Colin.Coe at woodside.com.au
Thu Dec 4 23:41:36 PST 2008


I wrote something to do this ages ago.  I'll post when I get back to work on Monday.

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From: syslinux-bounces at zytor.com [syslinux-bounces at zytor.com] On Behalf Of Marcel Ritter [Marcel.Ritter at rrze.uni-erlangen.de]
Sent: Friday, 5 December 2008 3:46 PM
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Subject: Re: [syslinux] Patch: Allow args with spaces

Gene Cumm schrieb:
> On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 9:15 AM, Marcel Ritter
> <Marcel.Ritter at rrze.uni-erlangen.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> the first attached patch extends the argument parsing code to allow (shell
>> like) spaces. A config like
>>
>
> Nice idea.
>
<...>
> Nice.  I can think of another enhancement, though (probably better as
> another module, say dmiselbios.c32 or dmiselectbios.c32).  If the
> parameters were triples instead of pairs, you could feed it a BIOS
> version string and compare the string values to choose whether to run
> the BIOS updater.
I had the same idea, however I wanted to get some feedback on the
general idea before getting deeper into it.
> I'd love to be able to do this on systems in my
> organization (except I'll have to figure out how to automate the
> installer).
>
>
>> Let me know if I can do something to get this merged into syslinux.
>>
>
> Did you read doc/SubmittingPatches.txt?
>
To be honest: no (didn't know about it) :-(

I'll look into it today - thanks for the hint.

Bye,
   Marcel

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