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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2013-02-06 21:27:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> | 2013-02-06 16:35:20 -0600 |
| commit | 543f34126b7bfc85b05d0e371e3ce0695444f433 (patch) | |
| tree | a1daca7381d4f1843e7858eba8fafed8f4774ad3 /hmp-commands.hx | |
| parent | de1cc36e1039faf65b1739d28bef9f2a4e230eb6 (diff) | |
hmp: make memchar-read escape ASCII control chars except \n and \t
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'hmp-commands.hx')
| -rw-r--r-- | hmp-commands.hx | 2 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/hmp-commands.hx b/hmp-commands.hx index 66ec716e03..4c100d7369 100644 --- a/hmp-commands.hx +++ b/hmp-commands.hx @@ -869,6 +869,8 @@ STEXI @findex ringbuf_read Read and print up to @var{size} bytes from ring buffer character device @var{device}. +Certain non-printable characters are printed \uXXXX, where XXXX is the +character code in hexadecimal. Character \ is printed \\. Bug: can screw up when the buffer contains invalid UTF-8 sequences, NUL characters, after the ring buffer lost data, and when reading stops because the size limit is reached. |