From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37439) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9GTW-0005ij-SI for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:15:59 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9GTS-0001yU-9m for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:15:58 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:37214) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1e9GTS-0001wh-3M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 30 Oct 2017 16:15:54 -0400 Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2017 20:15:49 +0000 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" Message-ID: <20171030201549.GE8941@work-vm> References: <7CA6B03C-DFAA-4A15-9E33-E3FAD6647140@gmail.com> <38c3125f-b050-c0ba-282f-bc1e9e11d297@redhat.com> <20171029102106.GA2841@work-vm> <847196B3-8C4D-4B8E-A6A4-5ADAEC73FF62@gmail.com> <20171030143220.GA5438@work-vm> <40acf44f-a8d2-890e-556b-02f551b05f2d@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40acf44f-a8d2-890e-556b-02f551b05f2d@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] drive_add: file names with spaces List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Eric Blake Cc: Programmingkid , "qemu-devel@nongnu.org qemu-devel" * 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 > -- Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK