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"Avi Kivity" <avi@qumranet.com> wrote in message 
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> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, 10 Jan 2008, Laurent Vivier wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Perhaps the best solution is to put "file=" option at the end of 
>>> aliases, '\0' is marking the end of filename (it is likely the idea of 
>>> andrzej about special characters).
>>>
>>
>> Oh, why not just make it a requirement that file= comes last, always?
>>
>>
>
> That's hardly intuitive.  I would prefer some sort of escaping for \, and 
> \=.  It will also break if/when -drive gains another filename argument 
> (say, for keeping shapshot data in).
>
> -- 
> error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
>
>
>
>

Why not use double quotes around parameter values containing special 
characters?