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From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Abort grub-install if prefix cannot be determined
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 17:49:03 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1217022543.3957.6.camel@dv> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080725203751.GC18149@thorin>

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 22:37 +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 07:39:24AM +0200, Christian Franke wrote:
> > grub-install does not check error return from 
> > make_system_path_relative_to_its_root() fails.
> > 
> > BTW: Unlike the other scripts, grub-install does not 'set -e'. Is this 
> > intentional or historic ?-)
> 
> I think it's historic.  Wouldn't mind moving it to 'set -e' (although one
> would have to check which grub-probe calls are allowed to fail).  What
> do others think?

I agree with you.  It's better to add explicit "|| :" to a few commands
that can fail than to allow every command to fail.

-- 
Regards,
Pavel Roskin



      reply	other threads:[~2008-07-25 21:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-24  5:39 [PATCH] Abort grub-install if prefix cannot be determined Christian Franke
2008-07-24 19:04 ` Christian Franke
2008-07-25 20:37 ` Robert Millan
2008-07-25 21:49   ` Pavel Roskin [this message]

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