Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > 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?)
We've discussed this before. Short story: we can't use the original due to our foolish licensing mistake, and the clones don't cut the mustard. Long story: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-10/msg02697.html
