On 4/17/19 2:06 PM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> char_pty_open() prints a "char device redirected to PTY_NAME (label
> LABEL)" message to the current monitor or else to stderr.  This is not
> an error, so it shouldn't go to stderr.  Print it to stdout instead.
> 
> Why is it even printed?  No other ChardevClass::open() prints anything
> on success.  It's because you need to know PTY_NAME to actually use
> this char device, e.g. like e.g. "socat STDIO,cfmakeraw FILE:PTY_NAME"
> to use the monitor's readline interface.  You can get PTY_NAME with
> "info chardev" (a.k.a. query-chardev for QMP), but only if you already
> have a monitor.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> ---
>  chardev/char-pty.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

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