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From: Stuart Brady <sdbrady@ntlworld.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH][RFC] Handling ':' on filenames
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On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:28:31PM +0200, Uri Lublin wrote:
>    b. We do not want to use "qcow2:/tmp/a:b" as filenames (been there).
>       We want to use -drive file=/tmp/a:b,format=qcow2 (and
>       similar "qemu-img info -f ").

I can't help but feel that any approach to extracting filenames from the
middle of arguments will always have problems.

I suppose a syntax like this:

   -drive file=/tmp/file,with,commas:and:colons ,format=qcow2

(i.e. with the next parameter to -drive starting in a new argument)...
wouldn't win many supporters though?

Cheers,
-- 
Stuart Brady