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

[Mike McClurg <mike.mcclurg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 09/03/2011 06:20 PM, Dave Scott wrote:
> 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.
Awesome!
> 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.
Yes, I second this ;)

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