Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] READCONFIG: Allow reading the configuration from a pre-existing filedescriptor

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 08:40:02AM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Cleaner than this ad hoc overloading of the filename argument would be:
> 
> * Separate option for fd: -readconfig-fd FD
> 
> * Use the general syntax for NAME=VALUE arguments: -readconfig
>   path=FNAME -readonfig fd=FD
> 
>   With QemuOpts, can make "path" the implied_opt_name so that
>   -readconfig FNAME still works.  Need to escape ',' and '=' in
>   filenames, but that's common in qemu command syntax.

I really think this option is better and cleaner. There's no reason to
invent a new mini-language for argument syntax if we already have one.

-- 
Eduardo