[bug #54994] Ignore comments in built-in configuration file

[Jean-Tiare Le Bigot]

URL:
  <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?54994>

                 Summary: Ignore comments in built-in configuration file
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: yadutaf
            Submitted on: Fri 09 Nov 2018 03:59:56 PM UTC
                Category: Configuration
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: Git master
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

The main Grub configuration file parser supports shell-style comments starting
with a '#' however the built-in configuration file is parsed with the rescue
parser rather than the full-featured configuration parser.

For each line the rescue parser takes the first word and assumes this is a
command name. For comment lines, it tries to execute the function '#' which
fails in a harmless way but logs annoying error messages to the whichever
console is connected.

To keep the rescue parser simple, stupid while supporting simple comments, we
could just ignore lines starting with a '#', like empty lines.



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Date: Fri 09 Nov 2018 03:59:56 PM UTC  Name:
0001-Ignore-comments-in-built-in-configuration-file.patch  Size: 1KiB   By:
yadutaf

<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=45392>

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