Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames

[Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>]

On Wed, 2009-07-15 at 18:04 +0300, Blue Swirl wrote:
> On 7/15/09, Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> > Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because
> >  qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example filename scsi:0, is
> >  interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi".
> 
> >  --- a/block/raw-posix.c
> >  +++ b/block/raw-posix.c
> >  +static int qemu_open(const char *filename, int flags, ...)
> 
> >  --- a/block/raw-win32.c
> >  +++ b/block/raw-win32.c
> >  +    fd = qemu_open(filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY,
> 
> I bet this won't compile on win32.

yes. good catch. fix is in the next revision(rev 6). However I do not
have a setup to compile and test changes in win32-raw.c . I will have to
rely on somebody to do the testing. 

RP