From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: linuxram@us.ibm.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>,
Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] rev4: support colon in filenames
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:31:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A574298.3010901@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247041831.6297.12.camel@localhost>
Ram Pai 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".
>
> This patch allows user to espace colon characters. For example the above
> filename can now be expressed either as 'scsi\:0' or as file:scsi:0
>
> anything following the "file:" tag is interpreted verbatin. However if "file:"
> tag is omitted then any colon characters in the string must be escaped using
> backslash.
>
> Here are couple of examples:
>
This needs rebasing and I'd like to see a few folks ack it first too.
--
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
To: linuxram@us.ibm.com
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] rev4: support colon in filenames
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 08:31:04 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A574298.3010901@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1247041831.6297.12.camel@localhost>
Ram Pai 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".
>
> This patch allows user to espace colon characters. For example the above
> filename can now be expressed either as 'scsi\:0' or as file:scsi:0
>
> anything following the "file:" tag is interpreted verbatin. However if "file:"
> tag is omitted then any colon characters in the string must be escaped using
> backslash.
>
> Here are couple of examples:
>
This needs rebasing and I'd like to see a few folks ack it first too.
--
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-10 13:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 119+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-24 16:58 [PATCH] support colon in filenames Ram Pai
2009-06-24 17:08 ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-24 17:30 ` Ram Pai
2009-06-24 18:31 ` Balbir Singh
2009-06-24 17:26 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:27 ` Amit Shah
2009-06-24 17:57 ` Ram Pai
2009-06-24 17:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-06-25 9:14 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-25 9:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-06-25 17:52 ` Ram Pai
2009-06-25 17:52 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-06-26 6:53 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-26 6:53 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-06-26 6:38 ` rev1 " Ram Pai
2009-06-26 6:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-06-26 7:45 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-06-26 7:45 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-06-27 0:41 ` rev2 " Ram Pai
2009-06-27 0:41 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 5:08 ` [PATCH] rev3: " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 5:08 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-02 8:52 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-02 12:52 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-02 13:18 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-08 8:30 ` [PATCH] rev4: " Ram Pai
2009-07-08 8:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-08 15:05 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-08 15:05 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-10 13:31 ` Anthony Liguori [this message]
2009-07-10 13:31 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 7:51 ` [PATCH] rev5: " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 7:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 9:30 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 9:30 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 17:03 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 17:03 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 18:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 18:20 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 18:44 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 18:44 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-15 21:04 ` qcow2 relative paths (was: [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames) Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:04 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:14 ` qcow2 relative paths Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 21:14 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 2:28 ` qcow2 relative paths (was: [PATCH] rev5: support colon in filenames) Ram Pai
2009-07-16 2:28 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:38 ` qcow2 relative paths Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 7:38 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 7:51 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:51 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:39 ` [PATCH] rev6: support colon in filenames Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:39 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-17 23:17 ` [PATCH] rev7: " Ram Pai
2009-07-17 23:17 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-21 12:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-21 12:42 ` [Qemu-devel] " Kevin Wolf
2009-08-06 6:27 ` Ram Pai
2009-08-06 6:27 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-08-06 6:47 ` [PATCH] rev8: " Ram Pai
2009-08-06 6:47 ` [Qemu-devel] " Ram Pai
2009-07-15 15:04 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev5: " Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:04 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:14 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:29 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:29 ` Blue Swirl
2009-07-15 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:40 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 16:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 16:42 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 17:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-15 17:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-07-16 10:57 ` Amit Shah
2009-07-16 10:57 ` Amit Shah
2009-07-16 13:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-07-16 13:43 ` Markus Armbruster
2009-07-16 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 14:10 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-16 15:13 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-16 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-16 15:12 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 15:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 15:34 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 15:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 15:52 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-15 15:52 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-15 16:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 16:03 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2009-07-15 16:08 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-15 16:08 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-16 7:39 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:39 ` Ram Pai
2009-07-16 7:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 7:43 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-15 18:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: " Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 20:54 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 21:36 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 21:42 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-15 22:00 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:16 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:39 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:41 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-15 22:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15 22:51 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-07-16 0:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 0:03 ` Anthony Liguori
2009-07-16 7:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 7:20 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 7:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 7:16 ` Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16 8:01 ` Kevin Wolf
2009-07-16 23:53 ` Paul Brook
2009-07-16 23:53 ` Paul Brook
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