Re: [PATCH] support colon in filenames

Balbir Singh
2009-06-24T18:31:18Z

* Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> [2009-06-24 10:30:00]:

> On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:38 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
> > * Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> [2009-06-24 09:58:59]:
> >
> > > Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because
> > > qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example a filename scsi:0,
> > > is interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi".
> > >
> > > This patch allows users to espace colon characters. For example the above filename
> > > can now be expressed as 'scsi\:0'
> > >
> > > Here are couple of examples:
> > >
> > > ndb:\::9999 is treated as a ndb protocol with a hostname ':' on port 9999
> > > scsi\:0\:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc
> > > http\://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb
> > > nbd\::localhost:2558 is a protocol by name nbd:
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
> >
> > Are colons useful for filenames? Is there a common use case for this?
>
> Yes. files like
>
> /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0000:0b:00.0-sas-phy0:1-0x5000c5000c14b41d:0-lun0-part3
>

Yes, that does make sense. Thanks!

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Balbir