From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRLH8-00021p-0Y for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:21:06 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MRLH2-000208-Jd for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:21:04 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=59755 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MRLH2-000205-7P for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:21:00 -0400 Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:26490) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRLH1-00019n-Lf for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:20:59 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate03.web.de ([217.72.192.234]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRLH0-0003i3-SV for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 16 Jul 2009 03:20:59 -0400 Message-ID: <4A5ED4D8.3030008@web.de> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2009 09:20:56 +0200 From: Jan Kiszka MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames References: <4A4C754D.10109@redhat.com> <4A4CAD86.9020607@us.ibm.com> <4A4CB39F.5070506@redhat.com> <20090715181405.GB3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4206.20602@web.de> <20090715213635.GN3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4D33.9070901@web.de> <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> <20090715223949.GS3056@shareable.org> <4A5E5B00.10304@us.ibm.com> <20090715225150.GU3056@shareable.org> <4A5E6E64.5030504@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4A5E6E64.5030504@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E" Sender: jan.kiszka@web.de List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Kevin Wolf , Anthony Liguori , kvm-devel , linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) --------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Anthony Liguori wrote: > Jamie Lokier wrote: >> So instead of consistency, you like the idea of using different >> quoting rules for the monitor than for command line arguments? >> =20 >=20 > Your proposal breaks Windows in a catastrophic way. It's almost certai= n > that all existing front-ends/scripts will stop working after such a cha= nge. Breakage of existing users is surely a no-go, so '\'-escaping remains taboo for Windows. >=20 > Or you have to quote differently on Windows which means you throw > consistency out the Window. I'm still not convinced that we actually need that much consistency here. This is *mostly* about path names, and path names are not directly portable between Windows and the rest anyway. Jan --------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpe1NgACgkQniDOoMHTA+lI7ACfUb5xd1Oco/Fcmc+/X2+6eg4k jngAn3hDWhNEc/doY7DrXRsd4i4UQNnx =HuVv -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------enigD3C2049570E274B9C028743E--