On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 03:10:09PM -0400, John Snow wrote: > <CC'ing curses maintainer> > > On 4/13/19 5:02 AM, Joachim Durchholz wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > what's the reasoning behind "We need a terminal output" in curses.c?
curses needs a terminal. > > I don't really see a scenario where it's problematic if qemu emits > > escape sequences to a pipe. It's not about sending escape sequences. A pipe simply doesn't support all the tty ioctls (query terminal size, turn echo on/off, set all kinds of terminal modes, ...). > > I can see another scenario when this is problematic: Unit testing code > > that directly writes to the console. E.g. testing BIOS code, or testing > > operating systems when using the serial port is not an option. seabios can work with the serial console just fine, try "qemu -nographic" cheers, Gerd
