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-rw-r--r--qapi-schema.json5
-rw-r--r--qemu-char.c14
2 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json
index f014a80f72..516b14526b 100644
--- a/qapi-schema.json
+++ b/qapi-schema.json
@@ -3102,11 +3102,14 @@
#
# @in: #optional The name of the input file
# @out: The name of the output file
+# @append: #optional Open the file in append mode (default false to
+# truncate) (Since 2.6)
#
# Since: 1.4
##
{ 'struct': 'ChardevFile', 'data': { '*in' : 'str',
- 'out' : 'str' } }
+ 'out' : 'str',
+ '*append': 'bool' } }
##
# @ChardevHostdev:
diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
index 2969c44e84..66703e3f0a 100644
--- a/qemu-char.c
+++ b/qemu-char.c
@@ -3484,6 +3484,9 @@ static void qemu_chr_parse_file_out(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevBackend *backend,
}
backend->u.file = g_new0(ChardevFile, 1);
backend->u.file->out = g_strdup(path);
+
+ backend->u.file->has_append = true;
+ backend->u.file->append = qemu_opt_get_bool(opts, "append", false);
}
static void qemu_chr_parse_stdio(QemuOpts *opts, ChardevBackend *backend,
@@ -4041,6 +4044,9 @@ QemuOptsList qemu_chardev_opts = {
},{
.name = "chardev",
.type = QEMU_OPT_STRING,
+ },{
+ .name = "append",
+ .type = QEMU_OPT_BOOL,
},
{ /* end of list */ }
},
@@ -4101,7 +4107,13 @@ static CharDriverState *qmp_chardev_open_file(const char *id,
ChardevFile *file = backend->u.file;
int flags, in = -1, out;
- flags = O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_CREAT | O_BINARY;
+ flags = O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_BINARY;
+ if (file->has_append && file->append) {
+ flags |= O_APPEND;
+ } else {
+ flags |= O_TRUNC;
+ }
+
out = qmp_chardev_open_file_source(file->out, flags, errp);
if (out < 0) {
return NULL;