Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: Workaround for an issue caused by noglob option of shell for -device ?

[Eric Blake]

On 06/27/2016 12:29 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Lin Ma <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> If there is any filename in current path matching wildcard ?, This filename 
>> will
>> be passed into -device ? while 'pathname expansion' isn't disabled by noglob 
>> of
>> shell built-in option, qemu reports error in this case.

And if there is more than one such file, then the glob expands to all
such files, turning '-device ?' into '-device a b', which your patch
does not handle.  You CANNOT reliably detect if a glob was expanded, so
it is pointless to try.  (At one point, glibc+bash had a tentative patch
that would set an environment variable according to the pre-glob command
line passed through the shell, so that the child app could reverse
engineer what globs had been expanded, but it was discarded YEARS ago as
not worth the overhead).

>>
>> Signed-off-by: Lin Ma <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  qdev-monitor.c | 5 +++++
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/qdev-monitor.c b/qdev-monitor.c
>> index e19617f..f6443cd 100644
>> --- a/qdev-monitor.c
>> +++ b/qdev-monitor.c
>> @@ -257,6 +257,11 @@ int qdev_device_help(QemuOpts *opts)
>>      DevicePropertyInfoList *prop;
>>  
>>      driver = qemu_opt_get(opts, "driver");
>> +
>> +    if (driver && access(driver, F_OK == 0) && strlen(driver) == 1) {
>> +        driver = "?";
>> +    }

NACK.

>> +
>>      if (driver && is_help_option(driver)) {
>>          qdev_print_devinfos(false);
>>          return 1;
> 
> I'm afraid this would silently interpret any one-character driver name
> as a request for help when a file with this name exists.  Not a good
> idea.  Example: "-device .".
> 
> "-device ?" and similar use of "?" elsewhere is deprecated.  Please use
> "-device help".

Agreed - we invented 'help' as a synonym for '?' precisely because '?'
can't be worked around.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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