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Date: Wed, 06 May 2009 09:08:40 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, alex@csgraf.de, nolan@sigbus.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Avi Kivity wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>>>
>>>  -drive file=file:///some/path:with:colons?
>>
>> No '///' please.
>>
>
> Why not?

For better or worse, this aren't URIs.  The main reason, is that a URI 
requires a hostname as the first component (which is empty in your 
URI).  But unix domain sockets don't match up with URIs because they 
aren't hostnames.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori