On 09/06/2018 10:12 AM, Marc-André Lureau wrote: In the subject, s/\?/help/
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> --- vl.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index 5ba06adf78..8a5fd0c81f 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -2731,6 +2731,19 @@ static int machine_set_property(void *opaque, */ static bool object_create_initial(const char *type) { + if (is_help_option(type)) { + GSList *l, *list; + + error_printf("List of user creatable objects:\n"); + list = object_class_get_list_sorted(TYPE_USER_CREATABLE, false); + for (l = list; l != NULL; l = l->next) { + ObjectClass *oc = OBJECT_CLASS(l->data); + error_printf("%s\n", object_class_get_name(oc));
This prints to stderr,
+ } + g_slist_free(list); + exit(0);
then exits with status 0. I'd much rather successful help text be printed to stdout.
-- Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org