Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/7] qemu-char: Allow a chardev to reconnect if disconnected

[Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>]

On 03/06/2014 12:47 AM, Weidong Huang wrote:
>  escape sequences.
>  
> +@option{reconnect} specifies that if the client socket does not connect at
> +startup, or if the client socket is closed for some reason (like the other
> +end exited), wait the given number of seconds and attempt to reconnect.
> +
>  TCP and unix socket options are given below:
>  
>  @table @option
> The client will reconnect for ever when the server is dead. Is it better that try to reconnect several times?
> Or add a option which specifies times of reconnect?
>
I'm not really sure about this.  For a remote IPMI BMC, you would want
it to reconnect for forever, there's no point it having it stop trying
after a while, since you want it to come back even if the BMC is down
for a day.  I would think the same if you wanted a remote console or
something of that nature.

What's the use case where you would want it to stop trying?  I can't
think of any.

Thanks,

-corey