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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-io: fix EOF Ctrl-D handling in qemu-io rea
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-io: fix EOF Ctrl-D handling in qemu-io readline code |
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Wed, 6 Dec 2017 08:30:27 -0600 |
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On 12/06/2017 08:25 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>> Should we instead be looking for a match against the current termios()
>> c_cc[VEOF] setting, in case the user prefers something other than ^D via
>> stty? Does readline provide any functionality for automating this?
>
> I was afraid someone was going to suggest doing that. I was being lazy by
> hardcoding Ctrl-D, but yes the real readline() library will honour the
> VEOF value. QEMU though is using a home-grown reimpl of readline...
I understand why we can't use modern libreadline (it is licensed GPLv3+,
making it impossible to use with our GPLv2-only code) - but doesn't BSD
have a readline-alike library with BSD licensing that we could use
instead of implementing readline ourselves? (Was it named libinput?)
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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266
Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org
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