[libvirt] [PATCH] allow '#' as valid character for domain name

[Eric Blake]

On 11/19/2010 11:00 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
>> -<param name="pattern">[A-Za-z0-9_\.\+\-&:/]+</param>
>> +<param name="pattern">[A-Za-z0-9_\.\+\-\\#&:/]+</param>
>>       </data>
>>     </define>
>>     <define name="diskSerial">
> 
> What's your motivation for this?
> 
> If domain.rng is used similarly to the other .rng files I'm more
> familiar with, it's only actually examined during the tests run as part
> of "make check", so it won't have any effect on actual operation. Is
> this what you intended?

Additionally, it would be a good idea to add a .xml file somewhere in
the tests/ hierarchy that has such a domain name, as a way of getting
test exposure of both the RelaxNG schema validation and of actual XML
handling in libvirt itself.

> "#" seems like a problematic character to put in a domain name - for
> example it would need to be escaped or quoted if it was ever on a
> commandline

Only if it is the first character of the domain name, but yes, this
aspect alone makes me need to see a concrete example of someone using a
domain like this before we can add support for it.

$ echo #ab

$ echo a#b
a#b

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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