* Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> [2009-06-24 09:58:59]: > Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because > qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example a filename scsi:0, > is interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi". > > This patch allows users to espace colon characters. For example the above filename > can now be expressed as 'scsi\:0' > > Here are couple of examples: > > ndb:\::9999 is treated as a ndb protocol with a hostname ':' on port 9999 > scsi\:0\:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc > http\://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb > nbd\::localhost:2558 is a protocol by name nbd: > > Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@xxxxxxxxxx> Are colons useful for filenames? Is there a common use case for this? -- Balbir -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
