Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH 1/1] Do not hang on full PTY

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 30/12/2014 00:41, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 29 December 2014 at 20:27, Don Slutz <dslutz@verizon.com> wrote:
>> I was not sure on this being trivial also, but it looked like it could
>> be to me.  The uses of this FD all looked that they handle non-blocking.
> 
> Does g_io_channel_read_chars() definitely return G_IO_STATUS_NORMAL
> (and not, say, G_IO_STATUS_AGAIN) for an attempted read on a non-blocking
> fd with no data?

It should return G_IO_STATUS_AGAIN.  However, pty_chr_read() won't be
called in the first place because the fd won't be readable and thus the
chr->fd_in_tag GSource won't fire.

I think things more or less work right now just because PTYs are
buffered in the kernel and there's no network involved, but Don's patch
is good.

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Michael, let me know if you're applying it yourself.

Paolo

> Otherwise pty_chr_read() is going to call
> pty_chr_state(chr, 0) which I think means "the other end has hung up"
> and will take the fd out of the main loop's poll set.
> 
> thanks
> -- PMM
> 
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