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From: "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net>
To: grub-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: grub-shell: Pass -no-pad to xorriso when building floppy images
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 20:43:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <27976457337021019265@scdbackup.webframe.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140116231353.7fbde35a@opensuse.site>

Hi,

> I think it is enough to say that everything after first "--" is passed
> onto xorriso. The fact that second "--" will enter native xorriso is
> documented in xorriso manual; anyone who would like to make use of this
> feature probably knows it.

This becomes quite confusing by the fact that even before the
first "--" the non-dashed arguments are interpreted as options
of xorriso's mkisofs emulation.
(I understand this from the interaction via ARGP_KEY_ARG
 between util/grub-mkrescue.c and grub-core/gnulib/argp-parse.c)

I would prefer to see a short mentioning that "--" has a special
meaning for the mkisofs emulation too, and that the first "--"
will not reach xorriso.


But again: Is this substantial change of user interface intentional ?

It makes the first "--" mandatory if any of xorriso's dashed
arguments shall be used. This demand is new and surprising.


Have a nice day :)

Thomas



  reply	other threads:[~2014-01-16 19:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-16 12:49 [PATCH] grub-shell: Pass -no-pad to xorriso when building floppy images Colin Watson
2014-01-16 14:05 ` Thomas Schmitt
2014-01-16 14:53   ` Colin Watson
2014-01-16 16:17     ` Thomas Schmitt
2014-01-16 16:28       ` Thomas Schmitt
2014-01-16 18:21         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-01-16 18:56       ` Thomas Schmitt
2014-01-16 19:13         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2014-01-16 19:43           ` Thomas Schmitt [this message]
2014-01-22 15:12     ` Vladimir 'φ-coder/phcoder' Serbinenko
2014-01-22 15:36       ` Thomas Schmitt
2014-01-25 16:27       ` Andrey Borzenkov

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