Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> writes:

> On Tue, Apr 05, 2022 at 02:45:14PM +0200, Damien Hedde wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 4/5/22 07:41, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> > Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> writes:
>> > 
>> > > On Wed, Mar 16, 2022 at 10:54:55AM +0100, Damien Hedde wrote:
>> > > > It takes an input file containing raw qmp commands (concatenated json
>> > > > dicts) and send all commands one by one to a qmp server. When one
>> > > > command fails, it exits.
>> > > > 
>> > > > As a convenience, it can also wrap the qemu process to avoid having
>> > > > to start qemu in background. When wrapping qemu, the program returns
>> > > > only when the qemu process terminates.
>> > > > 
>> > > > Signed-off-by: Damien Hedde <damien.he...@greensocs.com>
>> > 
>> > [...]
>> > 
>> > > > I name that qmp-send as Daniel proposed, maybe qmp-test matches better
>> > > > what I'm doing there ?
>> > > 
>> > > 'qmp-test' is a use case specific name. I think it is better to
>> > > name it based on functionality provided rather than anticipated
>> > > use case, since use cases evolve over time, hence 'qmp-send'.
>> > 
>> > Well, it doesn't just send, it also receives.
>> > 
>> > qmpcat, like netcat and socat?
>> > 
>> 
>> anyone against qmpcat ?
>
> Fine with me[1], though I would have slight preference for 'qmp-cat'
> to have a common tab-completion prefix with existing qmp-shell command.

No objections to the dash..

>
> With regards,
> Daniel
>
> [1] Especially if it displays a pretty ascii art cat when you pass
>     the --help flag ;-P

A cat "singing" to an emu?  Count me in!


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