[syslinux] [5.10] PXE + dhcp opts 209, 210 and path issues in tftp/http

[Jeffrey Hutzelman]

On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 15:40 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Jun, at 05:01:13PM, Ady wrote:
> > Perhaps the following is just a crazy idea... How about no 
> > path-separator in the cfg file, and instead use multiple PATH 
> > directives for each path in the cfg file?
> > 
> > Instead of the previous:
> > PATH first_path:2nd_path
> > 
> > now just use:
> > PATH first_path
> > PATH 2nd_path
> 
> You can actually do this already - multiple PATH directives are
> concatenated. But I think there's still value in allowing users to
> specify multiple entries with one PATH.

Right, so assuming you switch to the linked-list model, PATH needs to
split its argument on colons and add each of the resulting directories
to the path.  Then the present problem can be solved by introducing a
new directive which does _not_ split its argument.

-- Jeff