Re: [PATCH] qemu: qemu_fopen_fd: differentiate between reader and writer user

[Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>]

Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
> Yeah, I tried to implement the read/write mode buffer and it ends up 
> not to work very nicely.  I don't remember the precise issue, but I 
> hit some sort of wall that I thought was a fundamental limitation.  I 
> ended up forcing the QEMUFile to be in either read or write mode 
> similar to your original patch without introducing a new option as an 
> argument.
>

It really depends on whether the file descriptor is a file or a socket.  
With files, the read and write streams are backed by the same storage, 
so they can intersect.  With sockets, the read and write streams are 
completely independent.

Everything is a file, except when it isn't.

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