From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:16:37 -0500 Message-ID: <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> References: <4A434009.5010009@redhat.com> <1245998284.6278.99.camel@localhost> <4A447C8D.5000104@kevin-wolf.de> <1246063310.6278.115.camel@localhost> <1246511321.6429.31.camel@localhost> <4A4C754D.10109@redhat.com> <4A4CAD86.9020607@us.ibm.com> <4A4CB39F.5070506@redhat.com> <20090715181405.GB3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4206.20602@web.de> <20090715213635.GN3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4D33.9070901@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jamie Lokier , Kevin Wolf , linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel To: Jan Kiszka Return-path: Received: from e1.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.141]:45491 "EHLO e1.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751656AbZGOWSD (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:18:03 -0400 Received: from d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (d01relay04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.236]) by e1.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n6FMBcxX021423 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:11:38 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (d01av01.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.215]) by d01relay04.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v9.2) with ESMTP id n6FMGfKL256376 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:16:41 -0400 Received: from d01av01.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av01.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n6FMGeno030218 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:16:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A5E4D33.9070901@web.de> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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. -- Regards, Anthony Liguori