Re: [Qemu-devel] Implementing 9p for Windows host

[Greg Kurz <gkurz@linux.vnet.ibm.com>]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2016 16:37:11 +0200
Michael Fritscher <michael.fritscher@telematik-zentrum.de> wrote:

> Hello Greg,
> 
> thanks for your answer! Yes, I already jumped in - I was surprised how 
> fast it went. I was afraid of much bigger problems ;-) I've a already a 
> V2 nearly ready :-) As a teaser: Fixed read/write support and the 
> possibility to execute binaries from the mountpoint.
> 

I guess I'll wait for your V2 then :)

> Yes, I decided not to copy the 9p-local.c, because I had to change not 
> as many places I thought in the first place.
> 

That's cool to hear as I was a bit afraid of the huge code duplication.

> I'm wondering about the xattr stuff... Perhaps I try to remove the 
> <sys/xattr.h> from hw/9pfs/9p-xattr.h and #ifdef the things which are 
> broken afterwards. That would have the advantage that I don't have to 
> have local function stubs in the 9p-local.c anymore.
> 

It makes sense as I'm not sure all files really need to include this.

> To the licence: I asked because I know that other projects have a formal 
> process to cope with this - like a written agreement to be bound to the 
> license.
> 

I'm not aware of any such thing with QEMU.

> Best regards,
> Michael
> 
> 

Cheers.

--
Greg