Re: [PATCH] support colon in filenames

Amit Shah
2009-06-24T17:27:40Z

(Actually add Eduardo to CC)

On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [22:56:59], Amit Shah wrote:
> On (Wed) Jun 24 2009 [09:58:59], Ram Pai wrote:
> > 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'
>
> Eduardo (CC'ed) had a patch as well:
>
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.qemu/39229/focus=39229

Amit