Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/5] block/raw: Strip "file:" prefix from filenames

[Benoît Canet]

The Thursday 06 Mar 2014 à 13:57:55 (+0100), Kevin Wolf wrote :
> Am 05.03.2014 um 22:41 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> > The "file" protocol drivers (block/raw-posix and block/raw-win32) may be
> > explicitly selected by prepending a "file:" prefix to a filename (as
> > with all other block protocols). However, currently, they do not strip
> > this prefix as they should.
> > 
> > This series fixes this issue.
> 
> Thanks, applied to the block branch.
Heh my review was too late :)

> 
> This is just for consistency and there is no real use case for this,
> right? If so, it would be even more consistent to do the same for the
> host_* drivers provided by block/raw-{posix,win32}.c
> 
> I talked about this multiple times in discussions about handling colons
> in filenames, so that prefixing file: would make it unambigious that the
> colon is part of the file name and not a protocol name, but these days I
> think we already have enough other ways to express this (the easiest
> being ./test:foo, because protocols can't contain slashes)
> 
> Kevin
>