Support 'help' as a synonym for '?' in command line options

For command line options which permit '?' meaning 'please list the
permitted values', add support for 'help' as a synonym, by abstracting
the check out into a helper function.

This change means that in some cases where we were being lazy in
our string parsing, "?junk" will now be rejected as an invalid option
rather than being (undocumentedly) treated the same way as "?".

Update the documentation to use 'help' rather than '?', since '?'
is a shell metacharacter and thus prone to fail confusingly if there
is a single character filename in the current working directory and
the '?' has not been escaped. It's therefore better to steer users
towards 'help', though '?' is retained for backwards compatibility.

We do not, however, update the output of the system emulator's -help
(or any documentation autogenerated from the qemu-options.hx which
is the source of the -help text) because libvirt parses our -help
output and will break. At a later date when QEMU provides a better
interface so libvirt can avoid having to do this, we can update the
-help text too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qemu-option.c b/qemu-option.c
index 8334190..27891e7 100644
--- a/qemu-option.c
+++ b/qemu-option.c
@@ -529,6 +529,18 @@ const char *qemu_opt_get(QemuOpts *opts, const char *name)
     return opt ? opt->str : NULL;
 }
 
+bool qemu_opt_has_help_opt(QemuOpts *opts)
+{
+    QemuOpt *opt;
+
+    QTAILQ_FOREACH_REVERSE(opt, &opts->head, QemuOptHead, next) {
+        if (is_help_option(opt->name)) {
+            return true;
+        }
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+
 bool qemu_opt_get_bool(QemuOpts *opts, const char *name, bool defval)
 {
     QemuOpt *opt = qemu_opt_find(opts, name);