From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGXCV-00056P-I4 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:37:37 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGXCU-0006Wg-Ei for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:37:31 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:63131) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TGXCU-0006Wa-6O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 25 Sep 2012 11:37:30 -0400 Message-ID: <5061CFB2.8060701@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 17:37:22 +0200 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <87txunr76j.fsf@trasno.org> <5060488A.1050008@redhat.com> <87obkucl9q.fsf@codemonkey.ws> <5061C4E3.4080005@redhat.com> <20120925153359.GB23071@in.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <20120925153359.GB23071@in.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] KVM call agenda for September 25th List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com Cc: Kevin Wolf , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , quintela@redhat.com, qemu-devel , "Richard W.M. Jones" , Anthony Liguori Il 25/09/2012 17:33, Bharata B Rao ha scritto: >>> qemu -device \ >>> > > isa-serial,index=0,chr=tcp://localhost:1025/?server=on&wait=off >> > >> > Your examples kind of prove this: They aren't much shorter than what >> > exists today, but they contain ? and &, which are nasty characters on >> > the command line. > Right. '&' can't even be specified directly on command line since that will > result in qemu command being treated as a background job with anything after > '&' being discarded. I realized that '&' needs to be escaped as %26. No, %26 is escaped at the URL level, i.e. it doesn't start a new argumnt. If you need to pass '&' in the shell, simply use quoting or write it \&. Paolo