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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] qemu-io: Don't die on second open
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Max Reitz |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/5] qemu-io: Don't die on second open |
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Wed, 31 May 2017 16:18:24 +0200 |
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On 2017-05-24 22:28, Eric Blake wrote:
> Most callback commands in qemu-io return 0 to keep the interpreter
> loop running, or 1 to quit immediately. However, open_f() just
> passed through the return value of openfile(), which has different
> semantics of returning 0 if a file was opened, or 1 on any failure.
>
> As a result of mixing the return semantics, we are forcing the
> qemu-io interpreter to exit early on any failures, which is rather
> annoying when some of the failures are obviously trying to give
> the user a hint of how to proceed (if we didn't then kill qemu-io
> out from under the user's feet):
>
> $ qemu-io
> qemu-io> open foo
> qemu-io> open foo
> file open already, try 'help close'
> $ echo $?
> 0
>
> Meanwhile, we WANT openfile() to report failures, as it is the
> way that 'qemu-io -c "$something" no_such_file' knows to exit
> early rather than attempting $something. So the solution is to
> fix open_f() to always return 0 (when we are in interactive mode,
> even failure to open should not end the session), and save the
> return value of openfile() for command line use in main().
>
> This has been awkward since at least as far back as commit
> e3aff4f, in 2009.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
This still makes qemu-io -c "$something" no_such_file fail, right. But
now qemu-io -c "open no_such_file" -c "$something" will execute
$something; and I'm not sure we can convert all -c open users to not use
that command (maybe we can, now that we have --image-opts).
I don't think it's absolutely necessary for -c open to exit on error,
but you seem to do, if I understand your penultimate paragraph
correctly. :-)
Max
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