Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-18 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Am 18.04.19 um 13:02 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: On 04/18/19 07:02, Joachim Durchholz wrote: Am 17.04.19 um 20:27 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: So, let's look at your original question again (which was not a problem statement): So you need an explicit problem statement to know that somebody might have a pr

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-18 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 04/18/19 07:02, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Am 17.04.19 um 20:27 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: >> So, let's look at your original question again (which was not a problem >> statement): > > So you need an explicit problem statement to know that somebody might > have a problem? You're on a technical mail

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-17 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Am 17.04.19 um 20:27 schrieb Laszlo Ersek: So, let's look at your original question again (which was not a problem statement): So you need an explicit problem statement to know that somebody might have a problem? what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c? The rea

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-17 Thread Laszlo Ersek
Hi Joachim, On 04/17/19 19:09, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Sorry, I'm done having to argue against(!) a person who's stonewalling > me by wilfully ignoring differences ("doesn't work perfectly" > interpreted as "does not work at all"), discounting > just-for-testing-purpose workarounds as if they w

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-17 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Sorry, I'm done having to argue against(!) a person who's stonewalling me by wilfully ignoring differences ("doesn't work perfectly" interpreted as "does not work at all"), discounting just-for-testing-purpose workarounds as if they were actual proposed solutions ("not a sane approach"), ignori

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-17 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
Hi, > Then I don't understand why it just ran fine. > I don't expect fullscreen output to work perfectly anyway; If you don't expect the output to actually work, then fine, feel free to comment out that check. I don't consider that being a sane approach though. > just enough so I can use qemu

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-16 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Am 16.04.19 um 09:24 schrieb Gerd Hoffmann: On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 03:10:09PM -0400, John Snow wrote: On 4/13/19 5:02 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: Hi all, what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c? curses needs a terminal. I commented out the check, and guess w

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-16 Thread Laszlo Ersek
On 04/16/19 09:24, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 03:10:09PM -0400, John Snow wrote: >> >> >> On 4/13/19 5:02 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c? > > curses needs a terminal. > >>> I don't really se

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-16 Thread Gerd Hoffmann
On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 03:10:09PM -0400, John Snow wrote: > > > On 4/13/19 5:02 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c? curses needs a terminal. > > I don't really see a scenario where it's problematic if qemu emits

Re: [Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-15 Thread John Snow
On 4/13/19 5:02 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > Hi all, > > what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c? > > I don't really see a scenario where it's problematic if qemu emits > escape sequences to a pipe. > I have experienced one scenario where it is problematic: It does

[Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

2019-04-13 Thread Joachim Durchholz
Hi all, what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c? I don't really see a scenario where it's problematic if qemu emits escape sequences to a pipe. I have experienced one scenario where it is problematic: It doesn't work properly with pexpect and expectit (a Python and