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authorRam Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>2009-06-26 17:41:50 -0700
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2009-06-29 13:50:05 -0500
commit707c0dbc97cddfe8d2441b8259c6c526d99f2dd8 (patch)
treeb577fac92b2f94e300f1ce73804febecb615fdc8 /qemu-option.h
parentab4e5602a88402fdf7109e5093cace35a7471699 (diff)
support colon in filenames
Problem: It is impossible to feed filenames with the character colon because qemu interprets such names as a protocol. For example filename scsi:0, is interpreted as a protocol by name "scsi". This patch allows user to espace colon characters. For example the above filename can now be expressed either as 'scsi\:0' or as file:scsi:0 anything following the "file:" tag is interpreted verbatin. However if "file:" tag is omitted then any colon characters in the string must be escaped using backslash. Here are couple of examples: scsi\:0\:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc http\://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb file:scsi:0:abc is a local file scsi:0:abc file:http://myweb is a local file by name http://myweb Signed-off-by: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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