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From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:38:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070325203859.GB7023@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4606ABE5.60708@codemonkey.ws>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Joe Batt wrote:
> >I disagree.  /bin/sh makes a very flexible config file format that I 
> >use.  I use it on win32, Linux and Mac OS X.
> 
> The problem with only taking command line arguments is that the number 
> and size of command line arguments are severely limited on certain 
> platforms.  This is why almost every sufficiently aged/portable program 
> supports either a config file or a method of taking command line options 
> via a file.  The later is really just a particular format of a config file.

FWIW, if somebody comes up with a patch for the latter method without
duplicating the option parser I'll consider applying it.


Thiemo

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-25 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-01 17:26 [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks Laurent Vivier
2007-03-01 17:36 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-02  8:36   ` Laurent Vivier
2007-03-02 11:02     ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-03-02 15:42       ` Paul Brook
2007-03-02 16:24         ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-02 16:45           ` Joe Batt
2007-03-25 17:05             ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-25 20:38               ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2007-03-03 19:01           ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-03 23:38             ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-04  9:28               ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-04 11:43                 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-04 11:48                   ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-04 12:05                     ` Paul Brook
2007-03-04 13:44                 ` Chris Wilson
2007-03-04 17:50                   ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-04 17:06                 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-06 17:59             ` Joseph Miller

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