[Qemu-devel] curses.c: "We need a terminal output" ?

[Joachim Durchholz]

Hi all,

what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c?

I don't really see a scenario where it's problematic if qemu emits 
escape sequences to a pipe.
I have experienced one scenario where it is problematic: It doesn't work 
properly with pexpect and expectit (a Python and a Java library that do 
expect). I suspect they fail to use a pty, but then I see no harm in not 
doing so.
I can see another scenario when this is problematic: Unit testing code 
that directly writes to the console. E.g. testing BIOS code, or testing 
operating systems when using the serial port is not an option.

Regards,
Jo