From: Thiemo Seufer <ths@networkno.de>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:38:59 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070325203859.GB7023@networkno.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4606ABE5.60708@codemonkey.ws>
Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Joe Batt wrote:
> >I disagree. /bin/sh makes a very flexible config file format that I
> >use. I use it on win32, Linux and Mac OS X.
>
> The problem with only taking command line arguments is that the number
> and size of command line arguments are severely limited on certain
> platforms. This is why almost every sufficiently aged/portable program
> supports either a config file or a method of taking command line options
> via a file. The later is really just a particular format of a config file.
FWIW, if somebody comes up with a patch for the latter method without
duplicating the option parser I'll consider applying it.
Thiemo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-03-25 20:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-03-01 17:26 [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks Laurent Vivier
2007-03-01 17:36 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-02 8:36 ` Laurent Vivier
2007-03-02 11:02 ` Thiemo Seufer
2007-03-02 15:42 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-02 16:24 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-02 16:45 ` Joe Batt
2007-03-25 17:05 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-25 20:38 ` Thiemo Seufer [this message]
2007-03-03 19:01 ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-03 23:38 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-04 9:28 ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-04 11:43 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-04 11:48 ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-04 12:05 ` Paul Brook
2007-03-04 13:44 ` Chris Wilson
2007-03-04 17:50 ` Avi Kivity
2007-03-04 17:06 ` Anthony Liguori
2007-03-06 17:59 ` Joseph Miller
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