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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix double backslash problem in Windows


From: Andreas Färber
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Fix double backslash problem in Windows
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2008 13:27:51 +0100


Am 09.01.2008 um 13:08 schrieb Laurent Vivier:

Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 11:40 +0100, andrzej zaborowski a écrit :
On 09/01/2008, Laurent Vivier <address@hidden> wrote:
Le mercredi 09 janvier 2008 à 10:31 +0100, Laurent Vivier a écrit :
Le mardi 08 janvier 2008 à 17:17 +0100, Hervé Poussineau a écrit :
Hi,

On Windows, since December 2nd, files names provided in command line have to double their backslash to work correctly, for example: "- hda
c:\\disks\\qemu.qcow" instead of -hda c:\disks\qemu.qcow"
This patch removes this need and reverts back to Qemu 0.9.0 behaviour

Hervé


I have introduced this behavior to be able to use command line like
"qemu -hda my\ file", IMHO your patch should be #ifdef for window only.

In fact, this is a wrong example, this case is managed by the shell.
A good example is when we have a filename with a '"' in it:

qemu -hda 2\\\"file

to open file 2"file

And the correct behaviour for that would be to open the file 2\"file, while

qemu -hda 2\"file

should open 2"file. The only character that we may need to handle
specially should be the comma, I don't know if anyone cares.

You're right...
but "-hda" is an alias for "-drive file="%s",index=%d,media=disk".

So when you type "qemu -hda 2\"file",
it becomes "qemu -drive file="2"file",index=0,media=disk"
which gives filename equal to "2file,index=0,media=disk" instead of
filename equal to 2"file with option index and media.

So the '\' is needed, and you must have "qemu -hda 2\\\"file" to
have "qemu -drive file="2\"file",index=0,media=disk" and then can
extract filename to 2"file

In the alias, file="%s" is needed to be able to manage filenames with
spaces. for instance, if you don't have '"", you will have:
qemu -hda "my file"
-> qemu -drive file=my file,index=0,media=disk
and thus filename is "my"...

That's the classic SQL insertion problem. Can't you just have " replaced with \" before formatting it as "%s", like you'd do in PHP or elsewhere?

Andreas



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