From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [PATCH] support colon in filenames Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:38:48 +0530 Message-ID: <20090624170848.GU8642@balbir.in.ibm.com> References: <1245862739.6278.7.camel@localhost> Reply-To: balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Cc: kvm-devel , Anthony Liguori To: Ram Pai Return-path: Received: from e7.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.137]:39701 "EHLO e7.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755286AbZFXRIw (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:08:52 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e7.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n5OGuNqr003261 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:56:23 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (d01av02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.216]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n5OH8t9Y098852 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:08:55 -0400 Received: from d01av02.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av02.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n5OH6WDB008158 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:06:33 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245862739.6278.7.camel@localhost> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Ram Pai [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 Are colons useful for filenames? Is there a common use case for this? -- Balbir