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From: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Socket reconnection.
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To: Ian Molton <ian.molton@collabora.co.uk>
Cc: "Krumme, Chris" <Chris.Krumme@windriver.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

Ian Molton wrote:
> Anthony Liguori wrote:
>
>   
>> sleep() in qemu is very, very wrong.  It will pause the guest's
>> execution and all sorts of badness can ensue.
>>     
>
> Quite...
>
>   
>> The right thing to do is set a timer and not generate data while
>> disconnected.
>>     
>
> New patch attached, now with less crack...
>
>   
>>  I still am not confident this is really a great thing to do.
>>     
>
> What other option is there than to drop the ability to feed entropy to
> the guest when the hosts egd link drops?
>
> btw. Does anyone know how to get t-bird to inline patches?
>
> -Ian
>   

Ah, your mailer didn't attach it correctly...

Anyway, it's broken wrt CodingStyle.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori