Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames

[Anthony Liguori]

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.

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Regards,

Anthony Liguori