On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:15:02PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote: > Hi, > I had a look at a couple of readline like libraries; > editline and linenoise. A difficulty with using them is that > they both want fd's or FILE*'s; editline takes either but > from a brief look I think it's expecting to extract the fd. > That makes them tricky to integrate into qemu, where > the chardev's hide a whole bunch of non-fd things; in particular > tls, mux, ringbuffers etc. > > If we could get away with just a FILE* then we could use fopencookie, > but that's GNU only. > > Is there any sane way of shepherding all chardev's into having an > fd? > > Once you had those then you could also use them in a separate thread.
BTW, what is the actual thread issue you are facing ? Chardevs at least ought to be usable from a separate thread, as long as each distinct chardev object instance was only used from one thread at a time ? Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|