Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart

[mdroth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 02:24:56PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:13:13 -0500
> mdroth <mdroth@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > > Looks like you guys have no *practical* problems to solve.  Congrats!
> > > Take a vacation!  Please report back no later than 275 years from now,
> > > to make sure this 64 bit fd counter overflow problem gets taken care of
> > > in time.  ;-P
> > > 
> > 
> > Haha, well, I didn't want to be that one lazy developer who brings about
> > the downfall of future human civilization... but if it's a really big
> > deal they'll probably send someone back from the future to let me know,
> > so maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit :)
> 
> I *am* that guy, but I was afraid to tell :)
> 
> > I just didn't want to introduce a new interface that relied on
> > interfaces that were planned for deprecation in the *long*-term, but i
> > think you're right, it's too much hassle for current users for too
> > little gain, and there's plenty of time to do it in the future so I'll
> > hold off on it for now.
> 
> Let me clarify it: when I read the code I didn't realize fd_counter
> would never wrap. I think this discussion is settled now. However, I
> still think that having an assert there is good practice.
> 
> I can post a patch myself.
> 

Sounds good :)