On (Fri) 25 Feb 2011 [14:25:20], Michael Roth wrote:
> On 02/24/2011 06:48 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >On (Wed) 23 Feb 2011 [08:31:52], Michael Roth wrote:
> >>On 02/22/2011 10:59 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >>>On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [16:40:55], Michael Roth wrote:
> If something in the guest is attemptin
On (Thu) 24 Feb 2011 [08:44:07], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> For instance, if the host side disconnects, then reconnects before
> we read(), we may never get the read()=0, and our FD remains valid.
> Whereas with a tcp/unix socket our FD is no longer valid, and the
> read()=0 is an eve
On 02/24/2011 06:48 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Wed) 23 Feb 2011 [08:31:52], Michael Roth wrote:
On 02/22/2011 10:59 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [16:40:55], Michael Roth wrote:
If something in the guest is attempting to read/write from the
virtio-serial device, and nothing is connec
On 02/24/2011 06:48 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Wed) 23 Feb 2011 [08:31:52], Michael Roth wrote:
On 02/22/2011 10:59 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [16:40:55], Michael Roth wrote:
If something in the guest is attempting to read/write from the
virtio-serial device, and
On (Wed) 23 Feb 2011 [08:31:52], Michael Roth wrote:
> On 02/22/2011 10:59 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
> >On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [16:40:55], Michael Roth wrote:
> >>If something in the guest is attempting to read/write from the
> >>virtio-serial device, and nothing is connected to virtio-serial's
> >>host c
On 02/23/2011 08:31 AM, Michael Roth wrote:
On 02/22/2011 10:59 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [16:40:55], Michael Roth wrote:
If something in the guest is attempting to read/write from the
virtio-serial device, and nothing is connected to virtio-serial's
host character device (say,
On 02/22/2011 10:59 PM, Amit Shah wrote:
On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [16:40:55], Michael Roth wrote:
If something in the guest is attempting to read/write from the
virtio-serial device, and nothing is connected to virtio-serial's
host character device (say, a socket)
1. writes will block until somethi
On (Tue) 22 Feb 2011 [16:40:55], Michael Roth wrote:
> If something in the guest is attempting to read/write from the
> virtio-serial device, and nothing is connected to virtio-serial's
> host character device (say, a socket)
>
> 1. writes will block until something connect()s, at which point the
My basic understanding here is--there's no way for a virtio-serial
client (in-guest) to reliably reset a session such that if the client in
the guest crashes, the protocol needs to have some recovery mechanism.
This seems like a huge oversight in the design of virtio-serial. Are we
missing so
