From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:16:49 +0200 Message-ID: <4A5ED3E1.8000806@web.de> References: <4A434009.5010009@redhat.com> <1245998284.6278.99.camel@localhost> <4A447C8D.5000104@kevin-wolf.de> <1246063310.6278.115.camel@localhost> <1246511321.6429.31.camel@localhost> <4A4C754D.10109@redhat.com> <4A4CAD86.9020607@us.ibm.com> <4A4CB39F.5070506@redhat.com> <20090715181405.GB3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4206.20602@web.de> <20090715213635.GN3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4D33.9070901@web.de> <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057" Cc: Jamie Lokier , Kevin Wolf , linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:35700 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751257AbZGPHQv (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:16:51 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> We would still have to deal with the fact that so far '\' had no speci= al >> meaning on Windows - except that is was the well-known path separator.= >> So redefining its meaning would break a bit... >> =20 >=20 > That's the problem. You will break existing Windows users. >=20 > I know this goes against the current momentum in qemu, but overloading > one option with a bunch of parameters seems absolutely silly to me. It's surely not perfect in every detail. On the other hand, it's fairly compact, concentrating device attributes in one place. Jan --------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpe0+EACgkQniDOoMHTA+lr+gCfdeFIFXgQDl2oJQ5rHHWo0dTP O7AAn1XlnA9ZrIMaGpVZWEIZm/Nrr+SQ =n2QE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057-- From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRLDT-0008E9-OL for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:19 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRLDP-00084d-4D for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:19 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59707 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRLDO-00084U-UI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:14 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:26129) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRLDO-0000V5-Et for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:14 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRLDN-0003Me-En for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:17:13 -0400 Message-ID: <4A5ED3E1.8000806@web.de> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:16:49 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames References: <4A434009.5010009@redhat.com> <1245998284.6278.99.camel@localhost> <4A447C8D.5000104@kevin-wolf.de> <1246063310.6278.115.camel@localhost> <1246511321.6429.31.camel@localhost> <4A4C754D.10109@redhat.com> <4A4CAD86.9020607@us.ibm.com> <4A4CB39F.5070506@redhat.com> <20090715181405.GB3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4206.20602@web.de> <20090715213635.GN3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4D33.9070901@web.de> <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057" Sender: jan.kiszka@web.de List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Kevin Wolf , linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jan Kiszka wrote: >> We would still have to deal with the fact that so far '\' had no speci= al >> meaning on Windows - except that is was the well-known path separator.= >> So redefining its meaning would break a bit... >> =20 >=20 > That's the problem. You will break existing Windows users. >=20 > I know this goes against the current momentum in qemu, but overloading > one option with a bunch of parameters seems absolutely silly to me. It's surely not perfect in every detail. On the other hand, it's fairly compact, concentrating device attributes in one place. Jan --------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpe0+EACgkQniDOoMHTA+lr+gCfdeFIFXgQDl2oJQ5rHHWo0dTP O7AAn1XlnA9ZrIMaGpVZWEIZm/Nrr+SQ =n2QE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigCAF089718A6EB050A1FFD057--