Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/5] console: pass Monitor to vga_hw_screen_dump/hw_vga_dump

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:14:10 +0200
Alon Levy <alevy@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 09:32:58AM -0300, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:37:13 +0000
> > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > First, with this applied you will not know the size in advance.  Also
> > > > one of the approaches discussed is to allow passing in a file handle.
> > > > That is a possible way to handle async screendumps too: just write to
> > > > the passed file handle and close it when done.  Obvious drawback is that
> > > > this will not cover the classic way of specifying the output filename as
> > > > argument.
> > 
> > As Daniel explains below, this is not a drawback and there's no problem
> > supporting multiple ways of returning the image.
> > 
> > The real drawback of making this w/o async support is that you can't detect
> > errors.
> > 
> 
> You also can't detect when the writing is done (unless you continuously
> try to parse the file yourself..)

Oh, really? For some reason I had a pipe in my mind, but I honestly don't
what's the semantics of fd passing in that regard.