From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Balbir Singh Subject: Re: [PATCH] support colon in filenames Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:01:13 +0530 Message-ID: <20090624183113.GV8642@balbir.in.ibm.com> References: <1245862739.6278.7.camel@localhost> <20090624170848.GU8642@balbir.in.ibm.com> <1245864600.6278.11.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 e3.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.143]:45484 "EHLO e3.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753125AbZFXSbS (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:31:18 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e3.ny.us.ibm.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n5OIQ9Bk012563 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:26:09 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n5OIVLV9249360 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:31:21 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n5OIVKqd022155 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:31:21 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1245864600.6278.11.camel@localhost> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: * Ram Pai [2009-06-24 10:30:00]: > On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 22:38 +0530, Balbir Singh wrote: > > * 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? > > 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! -- Balbir