On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 12:03 -0600, Michael Roth wrote: > Utilize the getfile RPC to provide a means to view text files in the > guest. Getfile can handle binary files as well but we don't advertise > that here due to the special handling requiring to store it and provide > it back to the user (base64 encoding it for instance). Hence the > otherwise confusing "viewfile" as opposed to "getfile".
What happens to the monitor if you use this to view a binary file? Retrieving binary files progmatically using the QMP interface is a valid use case right? If so, I don't think it makes sense to introduce confusion by renaming the rpc function from getfile to viewfile when we are just exposing the getfile interface. -- Thanks, Adam
