[libvirt] [PATCH] Improve error reporting when virsh console is run without a TTY
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Fri Feb 24 15:42:38 UTC 2012
On 02/24/2012 08:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
>
> If attempting to run
>
> ssh root at somehost virsh console someguest
>
> You'll get an error
>
> 2012-02-15 13:11:47.683+0000: 4765: info : libvirt version: 0.9.10, package: 1.fc18 (Unknown, 2012-02-15-11:48:57, lettuce.camlab.fab.redhat.com)
> 2012-02-15 13:11:47.683+0000: 4765: error : vshRunConsole:320 : unable to get tty attributes: Invalid argument
> Connected to domain f16x86_64
> Escape character is ^]
>
> There are several problems here
>
> - The actual error message is bad for users
> - We shouldn't rely on VIR_ERROR for this case
> - The prompt makes it look like we still connected
> because we didn't flush stdout.
Did you also test 'ssh root at somehost virsh start --console someguest' to
make sure that the guest is started, but the console sanely refused?
> +++ b/tools/virsh.c
> @@ -838,8 +838,14 @@ cmdRunConsole(vshControl *ctl, virDomainPtr dom, const char *name)
> goto cleanup;
> }
>
> + if (!isatty(STDIN_FILENO)) {
> + vshError(ctl, "%s", _("Cannot run interactive console without a controlling TTY"));
> + goto cleanup;
> + }
> +
> vshPrintExtra(ctl, _("Connected to domain %s\n"), virDomainGetName(dom));
> vshPrintExtra(ctl, _("Escape character is %s\n"), ctl->escapeChar);
> + fflush(stdout);
At any rate, this looks sane. ACK.
Hmm, we ought to ask gnulib if they will relicense the isatty() module
(currently LGPLv3+); as isatty() on mingw has bugs worth working around.
--
Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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