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

[Max Reitz]

On 06.03.2014 13:57, 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.
>
> 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

The use case would be that this allows explicitly specifying the prefix 
in order to create image files with a colon ("file:foo:bar.qcow2" for an 
image named "foo:bar.qcow2", although "./foo:bar.qcow2" works just as well).

I only looked for the "file" protocol drivers, but I'll have a look for 
other protocol drivers which currently do not strip their prefix as well 
(such as host_*, yes).

> 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)

Yes, but considering my first idea was to explicitly state the "file" 
prefix instead of the simpler ./, maybe others think the same way. ;-)


Max