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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:41:04 -0500
From: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames
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To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
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>

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.

-- 
Regards,

Anthony Liguori