From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
To: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Cc: Programmingkid <programmingkidx@gmail.com>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org qemu-devel" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] drive_add: file names with spaces
Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:15:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171030201549.GE8941@work-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40acf44f-a8d2-890e-556b-02f551b05f2d@redhat.com>
* Eric Blake (eblake@redhat.com) wrote:
> On 10/30/2017 03:32 PM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
>
> > Now, the real challenge is how to deal with a filename with a comma in;
> > drive_add 1 "file=foo,bar"
> > Could not open 'foo': No such file or directory
> >
>
> Does HMP use the QemuOpts parser? If so, try:
>
> drive_add 1 "file=foo,,bar"
>
> (that is, reproduce the double-comma escaping mechanism that we use on
> the command line).
>
> But I haven't personally tried this, so I have no idea if it will help.
Ah yes it does; I never knew that worked.
Dave
> --
> Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
> Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
> Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
>
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-28 4:44 [Qemu-devel] drive_add: file names with spaces Programmingkid
2017-10-28 6:00 ` Eric Blake
2017-10-29 10:21 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-10-30 1:38 ` Programmingkid
2017-10-30 14:32 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-10-30 15:22 ` Programmingkid
2017-10-30 17:03 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2017-10-30 20:02 ` Eric Blake
2017-10-30 20:15 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
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