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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Always use nonblocking
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To: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 11:31:42AM -0500, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
>
> The only guarenteed reliable way I know of is using epoll(), but as I
> mentioned before that's Linux specific, so not immediately useful unless
> we're willing to drop in an alternate epoll() based main loop for Linux
> only, and say other OS have to use PTYs in blocking mode.
>   

So far, this sounds like the best option to me.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Daniel
>