Re: [Xen-devel] drjones@xxxxxxxxxx, vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx, leiwang@xxxxxxxxxx, wshi@xxxxxxxxxx

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 12:27 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> On 04/24/2014 10:32 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 10:01 +0100, George Dunlap wrote:
> >> On 04/24/2014 09:44 AM, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 2014-04-24 at 08:14 +0800, Lingfei Kong wrote:
> >>>> Maybe another solution is to change the xl command to adapt this.
> >>> Feel free to propose a patch but I suspect this would involve too much
> >>> surgery to the config file parser.
> >>>
> >>>>    On
> >>>> RHEL5 xen hypervisor, I can create a guest with `xm create hvm.cfg
> >>>> cpus="0-3"`. As a user I prefer this method, because this will be
> >>>> consistent with it's config file and it is strange to use ' to enclose
> >>>> the parameters.
> >>> That is perfectly normal shell quoting behaviour, nothing strange about
> >>> it IMHO.
> >> Well having the config file syntax include quotes and brackets is
> >> natural.  The fact that the shell interprets quotes and brackets is also
> >> natural.  But the combination of the two leads to a rather unexpected
> >> and clunky user interface.
> > This happens all the time though, "in find -exec foo \;" in sed and perl
> > -e etc etc. It's just the way Unix shells work.
> 
> Maybe it would be more clear then, rather than saying "key=value pairs" 
> in the man page, to say "a config file snippet"?  That might put people 
> in the mindset of thinking more like "perl -e".

I thought (having glanced really quickly yesterday as I filed it in my
queue) that your proposed docs change looked pretty good.

Ian.



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