From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jan Kiszka Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:20:56 +0200 Message-ID: <4A5ED4D8.3030008@web.de> References: <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> <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> <20090715223949.GS3056@shareable.org> <4A5E5B00.10304@us.ibm.com> <20090715225150.GU3056@shareable.org> <4A5E6E64.5030504@codemonkey.ws> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E" Cc: Jamie Lokier , Anthony Liguori , Kevin Wolf , linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel To: Anthony Liguori Return-path: Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]:53659 "EHLO fmmailgate03.web.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751911AbZGPHU6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:20:58 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A5E6E64.5030504@codemonkey.ws> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: >> So instead of consistency, you like the idea of using different >> quoting rules for the monitor than for command line arguments? >> =20 >=20 > Your proposal breaks Windows in a catastrophic way. It's almost certai= n > that all existing front-ends/scripts will stop working after such a cha= nge. Breakage of existing users is surely a no-go, so '\'-escaping remains taboo for Windows. >=20 > Or you have to quote differently on Windows which means you throw > consistency out the Window. I'm still not convinced that we actually need that much consistency here. This is *mostly* about path names, and path names are not directly portable between Windows and the rest anyway. Jan --------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpe1NgACgkQniDOoMHTA+lI7ACfUb5xd1Oco/Fcmc+/X2+6eg4k jngAn3hDWhNEc/doY7DrXRsd4i4UQNnx =HuVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E--