[Qemu-devel] Re: Machine-readable or parseable qemu output

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 01:31:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> We could differentiate based on the qemu prompt.  For "machine-
>> friendly" releases of qemu, change the prompt slightly so we know.
>>   
>
> The machine friendly protocol shouldn't have a prompt at all.  Prompts  
> are human friendly.

By machine friendly, I meant a monitor which humans can still use, but
which provides some guarantees if a machine is trying to parse the
output.  The prompt indicating, 'I'm ready for a command'.

Anyhow, I'm going to stay out of this debate now ...

Rich.

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