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From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-iotests: Fix call syntax for qemu-img
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:08:36 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F60ECB4.6050006@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1331751444-30905-1-git-send-email-sw@weilnetz.de>

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On 03/14/2012 12:57 PM, Stefan Weil wrote:
> qemu-img requires first options, then file name, then size.
> 
> GNU getopt also allows options at the end, but POSIX getopt
> doesn't. Try "export POSIXLY_CORRECT=y" to get the POSIX
> behaviour with GNU getopt, too.

That's a heavy sledgehammer, that has the potential to affect a lot of
other programs called alongside qemu-img.  Simpler would be to just pass
-- in the command line at the point where you want to force qemu to
treat all further arguments without getopt reordering them, as in:

>      # XXX(hch): have global image options?
> -    $QEMU_IMG create -f $IMGFMT $TEST_IMG $extra_img_options | \
> +    $QEMU_IMG create -f $IMGFMT $extra_img_options $TEST_IMG $image_size | \

$QEMU_IMG -- create -f $IMGFMT $extra_img_options $TEST_IMG $image_size

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-03-14 19:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-14 18:57 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-iotests: Fix call syntax for qemu-img Stefan Weil
2012-03-14 18:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] qemu-iotests: Fix call syntax for qemu-io Stefan Weil
2012-03-14 19:08 ` Eric Blake [this message]
2012-03-14 20:48   ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] qemu-iotests: Fix call syntax for qemu-img Stefan Weil
2012-03-27 20:56     ` Stefan Weil
2012-03-28 10:32       ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2012-04-05 13:11 ` Kevin Wolf

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