Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Domain name issue

[Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>]

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 06:24:09PM +0900, Masaki Kanno wrote:
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> Hi,
> 
> When we tested xm commands, we found a issue about a domain name.
> The domain name can use character '-'. However, when character '-' 
> was used for the top of the domain name character string, the 
> following issue was found. 
> 
> # xm list
> Name                              ID Mem(MiB) VCPUs State  Time(s)
> -domUtemp                          1      512     1 r-----    43.2
> Domain-0                           0      492     1 r-----   199.2
> # xm list -domUtemp
> Error: option -d not recognized
> 
> Some xm commands mistook such the domain name for a option. 
> We suggest the following patch. The patch changes XendDomainInfo.py 
> not to be able to use character '-' for the top of the domain name 
> character string. 

The standard way of handling this is to add '--' on the command line
to tell the program that everything that follows is an argument, not
an option. I don't know if xm supports this however.

The above command line would then become

xm list -- -domUtemp

Does this work?

Cheers,
Muli