* Ram Pai <linux...@us.ibm.com> [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 <linux...@us.ibm.com>
Are colons useful for filenames? Is there a common use case for this?
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Balbir
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