Re: [PATCH 4/5] tools/kvm/9p: Fix the pdu len.

["Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 14:51:19 -0400, Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 23:19 +0530, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
> > The TSTAT output formwat is wS. So not sure whey we
> > need sizeof(u16)*2 in pdu length.
> 
> See http://ericvh.github.com/9p-rfc/rfc9p2000.html#anchor32
> 
> "BUGS
> 
>     To make the contents of a directory, such as returned by read(5),
> easy to parse, each directory entry begins with a size field. For
> consistency, the entries in Twstat and Rstat messages also contain their
> size, which means the size appears twice. For example, the Rstat message
> is formatted as ``(4+1+2+2+n)[4] Rstat tag[2] n[2] (n-2)[2] type[2]
> dev[4]...,'' where n is the value returned by convD2M."
> 

The value returned by virtio_p9_fill_stat will include the accounting
for extra size field added to rstat reply. So we just need an additional
sizeof(u16). Not sizeof(u16) * 2 right ?

-aneesh