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Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 20:43:15 +0530
From: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 5/8] virtio-serial-bus: Add support for
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To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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On (Tue) Jan 12 2010 [09:00:52], Anthony Liguori wrote:
> On 01/12/2010 01:16 AM, Amit Shah wrote:
>> BTW I don't really want this too, I can get rid of it if everyone agrees
>> we won't support clipboard writes>  4k over vnc or if there's a better
>> idea.
>>    
>
> Why bother trying to preserve message boundaries?   I think that's the  
> fundamental question.

For the vnc clipboard copy-paste case, I explained that in the couple of
mails before in this thread.

There might be other use-cases, I don't know about them though.

		Amit