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

Jamie Lokier
2009-07-15T22:39:58Z

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
> >We would still have to deal with the fact that so far '\' had no special
> >meaning on Windows - except that is was the well-known path separator.
> >So redefining its meaning would break a bit...
> >
>
> That's the problem. You will break existing Windows users.
>
> I know this goes against the current momentum in qemu, but overloading
> one option with a bunch of parameters seems absolutely silly to me.
>
> IMHO, -drive file=foo.img,if=virtio,cache=off should have always been at
> least three parameters.

That's fine for command lines. I don't necessarily disagree with you.

But how do you propose to handle paths in monitor commands, when the
path contains a space/quote/whatever as it often does on Windows ("My
Documents", "Program Files")?

-- Jamie