On Mon, Sep 13, 2010 at 03:41:51PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: > On 09/09/2010 09:07 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > > While re-writing the command line mashing to not loose quotes would be > > nice, the more obvious fix is to not mash all the args back into a > > string at all. The virsh command ultimately wants char **argv, and we > > already have char **argv. So doing a char ** -> char * -> char ** > > conversion is just insanity. > > > > Daniel > > I did it as your suggested! Thanks a lot, see the following patch: > > Subject: [PATCH] virsh: rework command parsing > > Old virsh command parsing mashes all the args back into a string and > miss the quotes, this patch fixes it. It is also needed for introducing > qemu-monitor-command. > > This patch split the command-parsing into 2 phrases: > 1) parse command string and make it into <args, argv> style arguments. > 2) parse <args, argv> style arguments and make it into vshCmd structure. This sounds good, though I can barely understand the patch diff with the hairy hand-crafted parser we have there :-) > > Misc changes: > 1) support escape '\' > 2) a better quoting support, the following commands are now supported: > virsh # dumpxml --"update-cpu" vm1 > virsh # dumpxml --update-cpu vm"1" > 3) better handling the boolean options, in old code the following commands are equivalent: > virsh # dumpxml --update-cpu=vm1 > virsh # dumpxml --update-cpu vm1 > after this patch applied, the first one will become illegal. Daniel -- |: Red Hat, Engineering, London -o- http://people.redhat.com/berrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org -o- http://deltacloud.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: GnuPG: 7D3B9505 -o- F3C9 553F A1DA 4AC2 5648 23C1 B3DF F742 7D3B 9505 :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list