From: Anthony Liguori Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] rev3: support colon in filenames Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:03:48 -0500 Message-ID: <4A5E6E64.5030504@codemonkey.ws> References: <4A4C754D.10109@redhat.com> <4A4CAD86.9020607@us.ibm.com> <4A4CB39F.5070506@redhat.com> <20090715181405.GB3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4206.20602@web.de> <20090715213635.GN3056@shareable.org> <4A5E4D33.9070901@web.de> <4A5E5545.5060603@us.ibm.com> <20090715223949.GS3056@shareable.org> <4A5E5B00.10304@us.ibm.com> <20090715225150.GU3056@shareable.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Anthony Liguori , Jan Kiszka , Kevin Wolf , linuxram@us.ibm.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm-devel To: Jamie Lokier Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f192.google.com ([209.85.221.192]:48642 "EHLO mail-qy0-f192.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755802AbZGPADx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:03:53 -0400 Received: by qyk30 with SMTP id 30so2375527qyk.33 for ; Wed, 15 Jul 2009 17:03:52 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20090715225150.GU3056@shareable.org> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Jamie Lokier wrote: > So instead of consistency, you like the idea of using different > quoting rules for the monitor than for command line arguments? > Your proposal breaks Windows in a catastrophic way. It's almost certain that all existing front-ends/scripts will stop working after such a change. Or you have to quote differently on Windows which means you throw consistency out the Window. I certainly like consistency but I don't see a viable proposal that offers that. Regards, Anthony Liguori > -- Jamie > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >