From: "Yoshinori K. Okuji" <okuji@enbug.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: device syntax
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:33:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410211333.50293.okuji@enbug.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20041021112630.GA22854@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
On Thursday 21 October 2004 13:26, Tomas Ebenlendr wrote:
> Hmm, and what if there are quotes, or newlines in name? I think that
> we should be able to pass /any/ string to bios/firmware. Question is
> what characters we want to escape. If escaped characters will be e.g.
> quotes, the need of using this will be very little. If we escape
> commas, many names will get horrible. So what about this solution,
> extended by '\' as escaping character, using \" for char '"', \\ for
> '\' and \xxx for nonprintable or other characters?
That should be supported by the command-line interface, surely.
Okuji
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-21 11:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-20 2:14 device syntax Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-20 8:58 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-20 7:33 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-20 9:47 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-20 10:13 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-20 14:14 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-20 14:04 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-20 14:44 ` M. Gerards
2004-10-20 15:22 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-21 10:53 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji
2004-10-21 11:26 ` Tomas Ebenlendr
2004-10-21 11:33 ` Yoshinori K. Okuji [this message]
2004-10-28 18:59 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-21 14:54 ` Hollis Blanchard
2004-10-28 19:02 ` Marco Gerards
2004-10-29 1:40 ` Hollis Blanchard
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