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From: "Tim Lewis" <tim.lewis@insyde.com>
To: "'Carsey, Jaben'" <jaben.carsey@intel.com>, <Jim.Dailey@dell.com>,
	"'Ni, Ruiyu'" <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
Cc: <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: Shell Non-conformity to the Spec
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 12:14:03 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2b4e01d34cfc$43312480$c9936d80$@insyde.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB6E33457884FA40993F35157061515C753119AA@FMSMSX103.amr.corp.intel.com>

Jaben --

Wasn't there are previous e-mail thread about this?

Tim

-----Original Message-----
From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of
Carsey, Jaben
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:29 AM
To: Jim.Dailey@dell.com; Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [edk2] Shell Non-conformity to the Spec

Yes.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: edk2-devel [mailto:edk2-devel-bounces@lists.01.org] On Behalf Of 
> Jim.Dailey@dell.com
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 11:20 AM
> To: Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey@intel.com>; Ni, Ruiyu 
> <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
> Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
> Subject: [edk2] Shell Non-conformity to the Spec
> Importance: High
> 
> The shell spec says that "Each environment variable has a 
> case-sensitive name ...".
> 
> In the EfiShellSetEnv function of ShellProtocol.c a case-insensitive 
> compare is performed against the variable that is to be set to see if 
> it is one of the read-only variables.  That means one cannot set a 
> variable named, for example, CWD, even though "cwd" and "CWD" are two 
> different variable names according to the spec.
> 
> Should this be changed to a case-sensitive comparison?
> 
> Regards,
> Jim
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2017-10-24 19:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-24 18:20 Shell Non-conformity to the Spec Jim.Dailey
2017-10-24 18:28 ` Carsey, Jaben
2017-10-24 19:14   ` Tim Lewis [this message]
2017-10-24 20:11     ` Carsey, Jaben
2017-10-24 20:13       ` Tim Lewis

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