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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, alex@csgraf.de, nolan@sigbus.net, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>> So what should the generic escaping look like?
>>   
>
> -drive file=my-silly\:filename\,with\ strange\ characters
>
> I see no reason to do anything overly complicated.  Of course, if 
> you're in a shell, you'll have to double escape unless you've got 
> single quotes around it.  That's a good argument for file: in addition 
> to escaping.
>

With backslash escaping, I never know how many backslashes I end up 
with.  They're also the path separators in one OS.

I'd go with URL separating:

 -drive file=file:my-silly%3afilename%2cwith%20strange%20characters

-- 
Do not meddle in the internals of kernels, for they are subtle and quick to panic.