On 02/24/2012 08:13 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berra...@redhat.com> > > If attempting to run > > ssh root@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@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.
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