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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:51:51 +0100
From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, linuxram@us.ibm.com, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel <kvm@vger.kernel.org>

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Jamie Lokier wrote:
> >Anthony Liguori wrote:
> >  
> >>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.
> >>    
> >
> >That's fine for command lines.  I don't necessarily disagree with you.
> >
> >But how do you propose to handle paths in monitor commands, when the
> >path contains a space/quote/whatever as it often does on Windows ("My
> >Documents", "Program Files")?
> >  
> 
> Same basic rules apply.  The monitor should use shell-style quoting.

So instead of consistency, you like the idea of using different
quoting rules for the monitor than for command line arguments?

-- Jamie