Re: grub.cfg parser still doesn't abort on error

[Robert Millan]

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 09:59:57PM +0100, Marco Gerards wrote:
> Robert Millan <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Try the following grub.cfg:
> >
> >   cat (memdisk)/non-existant-file
> >   echo this point should never be reached
> >   read
> >
> > You'll see that the echo is reached, even if cat returned an error.
> >
> > This becomes much worse when found in situations like:
> >
> >   font (xxx)/some-file.pff
> >   terminal gfxterm
> >
> > and the font wasn't loaded.
> 
> Urgh!  Bean committed a patch that zero'ed the error.  Perhaps it was
> wrong? ;-)
> 
> Can you try reverting it? :-)

Actually, it was wrong before that.

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