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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] vnc: don't mess up with iohandlers in the vnc thread
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:06:39 +0100
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On 03/10/2011 01:59 PM, Corentin Chary wrote:
> Instead, we now store the data in a temporary buffer, and use a socket
> pair to notify the main thread that new data is available.

You can use a bottom half for this instead of a special socket. 
Signaling a bottom half is async-signal- and thread-safe.

Paolo