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

Jan Kiszka
2009-07-16T07:16:51Z

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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.

It's surely not perfect in every detail. On the other hand, it's fairly
compact, concentrating device attributes in one place.

Jan

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