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

Jeffrey Hutzelman jhutz at cmu.edu
Wed Jun 12 08:46:01 PDT 2013


On Wed, 2013-06-12 at 16:31 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:


> Switch to using the space character to separate PATH entries instead,
> which not only allows TFTP-style paths but also http and ftp urls. If we
> ever support filenames containing spaces in config files, then we'll
> have to introduce some means of quotation, to distinguish filenames
> containing spaces from separate PATH entries.
> 
> Internally, PATH is now a linked list which *greatly* simplifies the
> path code, and means we no longer have to parse strings backwards and
> forwards.

This is two changes, and should be done in two separate commits.
Particularly since there may be other alternatives to the
backward-incompatible change.



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