Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 6/6] tests: exercise NBD server in TLS mode

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 11:00:38AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 11/19/18 4:37 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> 
> > > Actually, I tracked this message down to using socat (which actually
> > > connects and then abruptly exits) when probing whether the socket is up and
> > > listening.  That is, the message is being produced as a side effect of
> > > nbd_server_wait_for_tcp_socket rather than during the actual $QEMU_IMG
> > > command we are interested in testing.
> 
> > > > This is the first use of socat in iotests.  Might not be the most
> > > > portable, but I don't know if I have better ideas.
> > > > nbdkit.git/tests/test-ip.sh greps the output of 'ss -ltn' to locate free
> > > > ports, but I don't know if ss is any better than socat.
> > > 
> > > So, I'm planning to squash this in, to use ss instead of socat, as follows:
> > 
> > Personally I prefer socat since it is more portable, per my previous
> > message.
> 
> socat is indeed probably more portable, but since tests 233 uses
> '_supported_os Linux', ss availability isn't a problem until a future user
> ports this test to non-Linux.  I'd like to patch qemu-nbd to NOT warn about
> a user that connects but does not consume data (the socat case, as well as
> port probes), but as that patch does not exist yet and -rc2 is getting
> close, I'll go ahead and send the pull request with ss instead of socat.

Yes, that's ok with me.

Regards,
Daniel
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