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Re: [Xen-API] strange bug with xe and bash

To: Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-API] strange bug with xe and bash
From: Dave Scott <Dave.Scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:20:47 +0100
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Hi,

Looking back through the code history it seems that xe is saving and restoring 
console state as a workaround for a bug where a subprocess was inheriting the 
terminal, failing and leaving it in a bad state. We've tidied up our subprocess 
handling since then and I can no longer reproduce the original problem (the 
original report was from 2007)

Therefore I've removed this workaround from xe - see xen-api pull request 334. 
Assuming the change builds and passes basic tests, i'll merge to master. With 
this change "xe vm-list | less" works as I would expect.

Perhaps in the future we should make "xe" behave like "git" -- I like the way 
it detects that it's running on a terminal and runs the output through your 
configured pager.

Cheers,
-- 
Dave Scott

On Sep 3, 2011, at 1:48 PM, "Mike McClurg" <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 08/24/2011 09:16 AM, George Shuklin wrote:
>> Good day.
>> 
>> Found incredibly strange and amazing bug.
>> 
>> If this command issued:
>> 
>> echo $(xe host-list name-label=$(hostname) ) | cat
>> 
>> bash displays: [1]+  Stopped
>> 
>> I don't press Ctrl-Z, it happens by itself.
>> 
>> This works in bash, don't work in csh. This happens irregularly (2-3
>> times going background, 1-2 times not).
>> 
>> You can replace 'hostname' and 'cat' with any other commands - only xe
>> in middle does matter. If 'hostname' replaced by text bug not appear.
>> 
>> I could not say I really it bother me, but it really strange. What
>> happens?
>> 
> 
> Yes, I've noticed this too. This has to do with the way that xe is 
> grabbing the terminal. You may have also noticed this same problem when 
> you pipe xe output to less. When you pipe to less, you have to hit enter 
> after every keypress, instead of less recognising keypreses as they occur.
> 
> You can work around this by doing something like this: 'cat /dev/null | 
> xe <command> | less'.
> 
> Mike
> 
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