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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: -serial stdio broken
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To: Blue Swirl <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
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> It looks like vl.c was a poor place to do the mux choice. I just
> wonder why mux option can't be automatically enabled for stdio in
> qemu-char.c:qemu_chr_parse_compat() or somewhere nearby.

The mux driver grabs the 'Ctrl-a' hotkey, so I wouldn't enable that 
unconditionally because the chardev isn't transparent any more with mux 
enabled.

It also wouldn't really help with command line parsing.

cheers,
   Gerd