From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48665) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgAT4-00016o-Ne for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:03:47 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgAT1-0001jH-Jy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:03:46 -0400 Received: from mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com ([148.163.158.5]:22947 helo=mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fgAT1-0001iy-DU for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:03:43 -0400 Received: from pps.filterd (m0098421.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.22/8.16.0.22) with SMTP id w6JEs3Bd115285 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:03:41 -0400 Received: from e15.ny.us.ibm.com (e15.ny.us.ibm.com [129.33.205.205]) by mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 2katuh6q1p-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:03:40 -0400 Received: from localhost by e15.ny.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:03:40 -0400 Received: from b01ledav002.gho.pok.ibm.com (b01ledav002.gho.pok.ibm.com [9.57.199.107]) by b01cxnp22036.gho.pok.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id w6JF3bnI63504440 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 15:03:37 GMT Received: from b01ledav002.gho.pok.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCF7D124053 for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:05:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from b01ledav002.gho.pok.ibm.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by IMSVA (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A9012405A for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:05:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from collin-ThinkPad-W541.pok.ibm.com (unknown [9.56.58.118]) by b01ledav002.gho.pok.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Thu, 19 Jul 2018 12:05:06 -0400 (EDT) From: Collin Walling Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 11:03:37 -0400 Message-Id: <1532012617-16777-1-git-send-email-walling@linux.ibm.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] monitor: print message when using 'help' with an unknown command List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org When typing 'help' followed by an unknown command, QEMU will not print anything to the command line to let the user know they typed a bad command. Let's fix this by printing a message to the monitor when this happens. For example: (qemu) help xyz unknown command: 'xyz' Reported-by: Stefan Zimmermann Signed-off-by: Collin Walling --- monitor.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/monitor.c b/monitor.c index 7af1f18..7942f9f 100644 --- a/monitor.c +++ b/monitor.c @@ -1034,9 +1034,12 @@ static void help_cmd_dump(Monitor *mon, const mon_cmd_t *cmds, } else { help_cmd_dump_one(mon, cmd, args, arg_index); } - break; + return; } } + + /* Entry not found */ + monitor_printf(mon, "unknown command: '%s'\n", args[arg_index]); } static void help_cmd(Monitor *mon, const char *name) -- 2.7.4