From: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
To: Wouter Verhelst <w@uter.be>, Alex Bligh <alex@alex.org.uk>
Cc: "nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net"
<nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net>,
"qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH] Strawman proposal for NBD structured replies
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:58:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56FB0892.2020703@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160329223129.GA5466@grep.be>
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On 03/29/2016 04:31 PM, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
>
> Maybe the "MAY set the offset" above should just be a "MUST set the
> offset", with the clarification that the offset "MUST not be beyond the
> actual error location, but MAY be before it if the server has no
> detailed information", or something along those lines.
Except that offset 0 IS a valid location, and there is no unsigned
number before 0 if the read error occurs while reading the head of the file.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-03-29 20:39 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Strawman proposal for NBD structured replies Alex Bligh
2016-03-29 20:57 ` [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] " Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-29 21:59 ` Alex Bligh
2016-03-29 22:31 ` Wouter Verhelst
2016-03-29 22:58 ` Eric Blake [this message]
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