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Date: Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:20:18 +0200
From: Stefan Weil <weil@mail.berlios.de>
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To: Filip Navara <filip.navara@gmail.com>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>, Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Sebastian Herbszt <herbszt@gmx.de>

Filip Navara schrieb:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 11:35 PM, Sebastian Herbszt<herbszt@gmx.de> wrote:
>   
>> Stefan Weil wrote:
>>     
>>> The old code resulted in wrong escape sequences:
>>>
>>> #define CONFIG_QEMU_SHAREDIR "c:\Program Files\Qemu"
>>>
>>> gcc warnings:
>>>
>>> vl.c:5708:20: warning: unknown escape sequence '\P'
>>> vl.c:5708:20: warning: unknown escape sequence '\Q'
>>>       
>> Looks like this got broken by "Generate config-host.h from config-host.mak"
>> (create_config).
>>
>>     
>>> Windows can handle slash (/) path separators,
>>> and QEMU already adds directories using slash,
>>> so there is no need to fight with the correct number
>>> of backslashes.
>>>       
>> Do all versions handle them correctly?
>>     
>
> At least all NT-based versions do and I believe Win 9x handles them
> correctly too.
>
> Best regards,
> Filip Navara
>
>   

Even IBM BIOS and all versions of MSDOS I know accept slash and backslash
in parameters for file system calls. So do all versions of Windows, too,

Regards
Stefan Weil