Support 'help' as a synonym for '?' in command line options

For command line options which permit '?' meaning 'please list the
permitted values', add support for 'help' as a synonym, by abstracting
the check out into a helper function.

This change means that in some cases where we were being lazy in
our string parsing, "?junk" will now be rejected as an invalid option
rather than being (undocumentedly) treated the same way as "?".

Update the documentation to use 'help' rather than '?', since '?'
is a shell metacharacter and thus prone to fail confusingly if there
is a single character filename in the current working directory and
the '?' has not been escaped. It's therefore better to steer users
towards 'help', though '?' is retained for backwards compatibility.

We do not, however, update the output of the system emulator's -help
(or any documentation autogenerated from the qemu-options.hx which
is the source of the -help text) because libvirt parses our -help
output and will break. At a later date when QEMU provides a better
interface so libvirt can avoid having to do this, we can update the
-help text too.

Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/bsd-user/main.c b/bsd-user/main.c
index cd33d655f5..095ae8eaaa 100644
--- a/bsd-user/main.c
+++ b/bsd-user/main.c
@@ -681,7 +681,7 @@ static void usage(void)
            "-g port           wait gdb connection to port\n"
            "-L path           set the elf interpreter prefix (default=%s)\n"
            "-s size           set the stack size in bytes (default=%ld)\n"
-           "-cpu model        select CPU (-cpu ? for list)\n"
+           "-cpu model        select CPU (-cpu help for list)\n"
            "-drop-ld-preload  drop LD_PRELOAD for target process\n"
            "-E var=value      sets/modifies targets environment variable(s)\n"
            "-U var            unsets targets environment variable(s)\n"
@@ -825,7 +825,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
             qemu_uname_release = argv[optind++];
         } else if (!strcmp(r, "cpu")) {
             cpu_model = argv[optind++];
-            if (strcmp(cpu_model, "?") == 0) {
+            if (is_help_option(cpu_model)) {
 /* XXX: implement xxx_cpu_list for targets that still miss it */
 #if defined(cpu_list)
                     cpu_list(stdout, &fprintf);