Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames

Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16T07:20:58Z

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Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
>> So instead of consistency, you like the idea of using different
>> quoting rules for the monitor than for command line arguments?
>>
>
> Your proposal breaks Windows in a catastrophic way. It's almost certain
> that all existing front-ends/scripts will stop working after such a change.

Breakage of existing users is surely a no-go, so '\'-escaping remains
taboo for Windows.

>
> Or you have to quote differently on Windows which means you throw
> consistency out the Window.

I'm still not convinced that we actually need that much consistency
here. This is *mostly* about path names, and path names are not directly
portable between Windows and the rest anyway.

Jan

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