Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL] tftp: fake support for netascii protocol

[Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@gnu.org>]

Vincent Bernat, on Sat 19 Nov 2016 09:03:08 +0100, wrote:
>  ❦ 19 novembre 2016 08:32 +0100, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> :
> 
> >> Some network equipments are requesting a file using the netascii
> >> protocol and this is not configurable. Currently, qemu's tftpd only
> >> supports the octet protocol. This commit makes it accept the netascii
> >> protocol as well but do not perform the requested transformation (LF ->
> >> CR,LF) as it would be far more complex.
> >
> > That sounds somewhat wrong to me. QEMU now seems to support a transfer
> > mode that is not really implemented.
> 
> On the other hand, the current implementation may not RFC compliant as
> the three modes (netascii, octet, mail) are not supported (but the RFC
> predates the usage of MAY/SHOULD/MUST, so it's unclear for me).
> 
> I have tried to add proper support, but this is more invasive as we
> cannot just seek in the file to get each block. However, this is
> something that I can do if compliance is important for QEMU.
> 
> > I think you should at least issue a qemu_log_mask(LOG_UNIMP, "...")
> > call in that case.
> 
> I can do that if needed.

That'd be better indeed. Otherwise people might wonder why things are
not working. Warning that they have to do the LF -> CR,LF conversion by
hand is important here.

Samuel