[libvirt] [PATCH] Make virsh support '~' and '$HOME' in interactive mode

[Eric Blake]

On 03/21/2013 07:33 PM, Zhang Xiaohe wrote:
> 于 2013年03月21日 21:08, Eric Blake 写道:
>> On 03/21/2013 04:20 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>
>> In other words, if we're going to do this, go all the way and use
>> wordexp() to get shell-like expansion, instead of reinventing it
>> ourselves.  Except that wordexp() is not portable to mingw, and not
>> provided in gnulib.
>>
>>>
>>> Also, we'll need a way to escape the special meaning of '~'
>>> and '$' to get them treated as literal characters instead of
>>> special characters.
>>
>> We already have the ability to quote characters, so that we can embed
>> spaces; our quoting rules are (intentionally) copied on shell rules, so
>> they would still work with a wordexp() approach.
>>
> This seems better than just expanding $HOME, i will try this wordexp().
> One question, is variable can be accepted in the position of command
> and option? That is, is this form
> virsh # $VAR --$OPT=~/rpmbuild
> could be valid?

wordexp() is not portable to mingw, and not provided by gnulib.  If you
try to use wordexp(), you will basically be re-writing a big chunk of
/bin/sh.  At this point, I'm not sure it's worth the complexity.
Interactive virsh does not need to be a full-blown shell.  From the
command line, you already have the shell parsing things before handing
it to virsh.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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