Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU/pc and scsi disks

[Thiemo Seufer]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
> Joe Batt wrote:
> >I disagree.  /bin/sh makes a very flexible config file format that I 
> >use.  I use it on win32, Linux and Mac OS X.
> 
> The problem with only taking command line arguments is that the number 
> and size of command line arguments are severely limited on certain 
> platforms.  This is why almost every sufficiently aged/portable program 
> supports either a config file or a method of taking command line options 
> via a file.  The later is really just a particular format of a config file.

FWIW, if somebody comes up with a patch for the latter method without
duplicating the option parser I'll consider applying it.


Thiemo