Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH v2] qemu-img: Initial progress printing support

[Jes Sorensen]

On 03/31/11 13:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Kevin Wolf <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Am 31.03.2011 13:15, schrieb Jes Sorensen:
>>> On 03/31/11 12:38, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>> I have been a little reluctant to do this because it will break the ABI
>>> for tools running qemu-img from a GUI etc.
>>
>> That's the reason for the "from a terminal" part. If we check for
>> isatty(), we should handle these cases just fine.
> 
> Yes, I think checking for a tty is enough precaution and allows users
> to get the benefit of the progress bar.  TBH I'd probably forget to
> add -p half the time :).

Ok, this is fine with me - however how do you suggest we offer the
option to disable it on the command line, an additional flag?

Jes