[Bug 1686364] Re: qemu -readconfig/-writeconfig cannot handle quotes in values

[Thomas Huth]

This is an automated cleanup. This bug report has been moved to QEMU's
new bug tracker on gitlab.com and thus gets marked as 'expired' now.
Please continue with the discussion here:

 https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/142


** Changed in: qemu
       Status: New => Expired

** Bug watch added: gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues #142
   https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/142

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Title:
  qemu -readconfig/-writeconfig cannot handle quotes in values

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  $ qemu-system-x86_64 -drive file=/tmp/foo\" -writeconfig -
  # qemu config file

  [drive]
    file = "/tmp/foo""

  For bonus points, try to construct a valid qemu config file that
  contains a quoted value.  It's pretty clear (from looking at the code
  also) that this is not possible.

  Also:

  - maximum value length is hard-coded in the parser at 1023 characters
  (for no apparent reason)

  - the format is undocumented

  - don't use sscanf for parsing!

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