Re: [PATCH v5 14/50] mutli-process: build remote command line args

[Elena Ufimtseva]

On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 05:47:45PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2020 at 06:36:13PM +0100, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > typo "multi" in patch subject.
> >
Thank Philippe, will fix.
 
> > On 2/24/20 9:55 PM, Jagannathan Raman wrote:
> > > From: Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Elena Ufimtseva <address@hidden>
> > > Signed-off-by: Jagannathan Raman <address@hidden>
> > > Signed-off-by: John G Johnson <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > >   v4 -> v5:
> > >    - Added "exec" suboption to get the executable's name
> > >    - Addressed feedback about variable names
> > >    - Removed redundant check for spawning a process
> > > 
> > >   hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.c         | 68 
> > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> > >   include/hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.h |  2 +-
> > >   2 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.c b/hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.c
> > > index 828bbd7..d792e86 100644
> > > --- a/hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.c
> > > +++ b/hw/proxy/qemu-proxy.c
> > > @@ -19,19 +19,50 @@
> > >   static void pci_proxy_dev_realize(PCIDevice *dev, Error **errp);
> > > +static int add_argv(char *opts_str, char **argv, int argc)
> > > +{
> > > +    int max_args = 64;
> > > +
> > > +    if (argc < max_args - 1) {
> > > +        argv[argc++] = opts_str;
> > > +        argv[argc] = 0;
> > > +    } else {
> > > +        return 0;
> > > +    }
> > > +
> > > +    return argc;
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +static int make_argv(char *opts_str, char **argv, int argc)
> > > +{
> > > +    int max_args = 64;
> > > +
> > > +    char *p2 = strtok(opts_str, " ");
> > > +    while (p2 && argc < max_args - 1) {
> > > +        argv[argc++] = p2;
> > > +        p2 = strtok(0, " ");
> > > +    }
> > > +    argv[argc] = 0;
> > 
> > Is there a GLib function to do that?
>

Hi Daniel

> g_shell_parse_argv() perhaps
>

Thanks for the suggestion.

>   https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Shell-related-Utilities.html
> 
> 
> Though my preference would be to avoid the need to do this at all, by
> not accepting a raw shell command line string in the first place.
>
Can you please clarify? Did you mean that it would be better if Qemu somehow
verifies the options and then passes it to a remote process via a message?

Thanks!

Elena
> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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