Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/4] monitor: introduce monitor_read_console

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Mon,  2 Sep 2013 17:01:45 +0800
Lei Li <address@hidden> wrote:

> This patch introduces monitor_read_console(), which will drop
> into interactive mode with chardev ringbuf backend, and install
> a readline handler. When the handler is invoked, the given data
> will be written to ringbuf backend.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lei Li <address@hidden>
> ---
>  include/monitor/monitor.h |    3 +++
>  monitor.c                 |   14 ++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/monitor/monitor.h b/include/monitor/monitor.h
> index 1942cc4..e6a6f47 100644
> --- a/include/monitor/monitor.h
> +++ b/include/monitor/monitor.h
> @@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ ReadLineState *monitor_get_rs(Monitor *mon);
>  int monitor_read_password(Monitor *mon, ReadLineFunc *readline_func,
>                            void *opaque);
>  
> +int monitor_read_console(Monitor *mon, const char *device,
> +                         ReadLineFunc *readline_func, void *opaque);
> +
>  int qmp_qom_set(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict, QObject **ret);
>  
>  int qmp_qom_get(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict, QObject **ret);
> diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c
> index 0aeaf6c..531095e 100644
> --- a/monitor.c
> +++ b/monitor.c
> @@ -263,6 +263,20 @@ int monitor_read_password(Monitor *mon, ReadLineFunc 
> *readline_func,
>      }
>  }
>  
> +int monitor_read_console(Monitor *mon, const char *device,
> +                         ReadLineFunc *readline_func, void *opaque)
> +{
> +    char prompt[60];
> +
> +    if (!mon->rs) {
> +        return -1;
> +    }
> +
> +    snprintf(prompt, sizeof(prompt), "%s: ", device);

You can use g_strdup_printf() to avoid a fixed size buffer.

> +    readline_start(mon->rs, prompt, 0, readline_func, opaque);
> +    return 0;
> +}
> +
>  static gboolean monitor_unblocked(GIOChannel *chan, GIOCondition cond,
>                                    void *opaque)
>  {