Re: [PATCH] boot parameters: quoting of environment variablesrevisited

[Werner Almesberger]

Len Brown wrote:
> I'm not sure what quoted parameters for init's environment are used for,
> but it looks like FOO="FOO BAR" now results in
> FOO=FOO BAR
> in the environment.

E.g. when passing data into a UML kernel, it's handy if you can
use parts of the host environment, such as PATH or cwd, even if
the user has a somewhat strange setup, with spaces in them.

That would be for things like "run this test script from my
PATH, using files in the current directory, as 'init' under that
kernel".

- Werner

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