Am 12.04.2012 16:12, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: > Il 12/04/2012 15:41, Kevin Wolf ha scritto: >>>> >>>> As the comments pointed out by Eric and Paolo indicate, the issue is >>>> worse on some platforms. It would be nice to be able to rely on >>>> canonicalize_file_name(), so I like Daniel's suggestion of pulling in >>>> Paolo's proposed glib patch into QEMU. Any objections to bundling >>>> Paolo's patch with my next (v1) submission? >> I haven't looked at that patch yet, but if it's licensed appropriately >> (IIUC, Paolo is not the only copyright owner), I think we can pull it in. > > I am, but I'm not sure how we would handle backwards-compatibility. > IOW, we would carry the patch forever.
Until we decide to have a hard dependency on a glib version that contains the patch, yes. But we carry so many functions of this type, that one more or less shouldn't make a big difference. Kevin
