On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 03/31/11 13:49, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 31, 2011 at 12:38 PM, Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> wrote:
>>> Am 31.03.2011 13:15, schrieb Jes Sorensen:
>>>> On 03/31/11 12:38, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>>>> I have been a little reluctant to do this because it will break the ABI
>>>> for tools running qemu-img from a GUI etc.
>>>
>>> That's the reason for the "from a terminal" part. If we check for
>>> isatty(), we should handle these cases just fine.
>>
>> Yes, I think checking for a tty is enough precaution and allows users
>> to get the benefit of the progress bar.  TBH I'd probably forget to
>> add -p half the time :).
>
> Ok, this is fine with me - however how do you suggest we offer the
> option to disable it on the command line, an additional flag?

That would be safest, good idea.

Stefan

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