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From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] unnecessary removal of guest console
	characters
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2008 16:11:46 +0100
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Keir Fraser, le Fri 11 Apr 2008 16:03:57 +0100, a écrit :
> Buffering happens in the daemon, not in the inter-domain ring. If we switch
> to your strategy then overflow leads to the guest hanging rather than
> characters being dropped.

The guest itself doesn't hang, the application inside the guest that
produces the output does hang, and that's what I would expect if I am
not looking at it, rather than the risk of loosing data because of a
non-end-to-end flow control.

Samuel