Re: [Qemu-devel] qemu-io read do not dump buffer when in quiet mode

[Eric Blake]

On 04/20/2018 11:14 AM, Junpeng.Li wrote:
> 
> Hi, everyone. I found a question or maybe a bug during use qemu-io to read
> a range file and take the params -vq to dump buffer and do not show
> I/O statistics. I use the params -vq what i want is just dump buffer
> but do not show I/O statistics, but as the result show it is not.
> 
> Like below command, it do not dump buffer to standard output.
> 
> qemu-io -r -c "read -vq 0 1024" /tmp/test.qcow2
> 
> I saw the source code, when has qflag value it just goto out and do
> not dump buffer when qflag and vflag has value at the same time.
> 
>     if (qflag) {
>         goto out;
>     }
> 
>     if (vflag) {
>         dump_buffer(buf, offset, qiov.size);
>     }
> 
> quiet mode here, it mean do not show I/O statistics or mean complete quiet?

You're welcome to provide a patch to make it have saner behavior.  As
long as running qemu-iotests doesn't break, we are pretty much free to
refactor qemu-io as it is more a tool for internal testing than for
external use.

-- 
Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
Red Hat, Inc.           +1-919-301-3266
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