Re: [Xen-devel] xl command autocompletion: domain names

[Matthew Daley <mattjd@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 4:37 AM, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Matthew Daley writes ("Re: xl command autocompletion: domain names"):
>> I guess most autocompletions don't need to access information with a
>> different privilege level. Domain names don't seem like they should be
>> privileged information (that is, to a user that can already run `ps`
>> on the toolstack domain), they just de facto are right now.
>
> Yes.
>
>> On Fri, Nov 1, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > I don't necessarily object to setting the process title, it feels a bit
>> > 1980s/sendmail-ish to me but that might just be me ;-)
>
> Right.
>
>> Can't say I have 80s UNIX experience ;)
>
> The problem with it from my point of view is that it's very difficult
> to make it reliable.  I don't mind setting the title for the benefit
> of admins, but automatically grepping processes out of ps listings is
> pretty poor and shouldn't be done in bash-completion IMO.

A quick grep through the existing bash-completion scripts doesn't show
any uses of ps, so that is in your favour. I guess I'll can this idea
for getting the names for now then. The thing is, a completion script
for xl that doesn't handle domain names seems a little pointless...

- Matthew

>
> Ian.

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