Re: [Qemu-devel] [Bug 1022331] Re: -cpu ? causes confusion when directory has 1-character length filenames

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 July 2012 20:44, Michael Tokarev <address@hidden> wrote:
> Please take this to your shell.  The queston mark is a metacharacter for
> any *nix shell, you should just quote or backslash it.  The same
> question mark is not special on windows.

I think it's a legitimate complaint to say that this is not fantastically
friendly UI on QEMU's part though. (I've been bitten by it myself and
I've been dealing with Bourne shells for over a decade.), Picking a
string that requires metacharacter-quoting in the major shell most
people use is just a silly choice.

I've thought before that we ought to make sure we have synonyms (eg 'help')
for all the list things that currently want '?'. Then we could mark '?'
as deprecated or present for back-compatibility only.

-- PMM