From: Tim Lewis <tim.lewis@insyde.com>
To: "Carsey, Jaben" <jaben.carsey@intel.com>,
"Jim.Dailey@dell.com" <Jim.Dailey@dell.com>,
"Ni, Ruiyu" <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
Cc: "edk2-devel@lists.01.org" <edk2-devel@lists.01.org>
Subject: Re: Shell Non-conformity to the Spec
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2017 13:13:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd03a6$72n3f@hb3-IN03.hibox.biz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CB6E33457884FA40993F35157061515C75311BA8@FMSMSX103.amr.corp.intel.com>
Ah, now I remember. It was about aliases and case sensitivity, not environment variables. Tim
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From: Carsey, Jaben
Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 1:11 PM
To: Tim Lewis; Jim.Dailey@dell.com; Ni, Ruiyu
Cc: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
Subject: Re: [edk2] Shell Non-conformity to the Spec
I don't remember. Is there a defect in the Bugzilla?
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Lewis [mailto:tim.lewis@insyde.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2017 12:14 PM
> 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: [edk2] Shell Non-conformity to the Spec
> Importance: High
>
> 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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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
2017-10-24 20:11 ` Carsey, Jaben
2017-10-24 20:13 ` Tim Lewis [this message]
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