[Libvir] RFC [0/3]: Re-factor QEMU daemon protocol to use XDR

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 01:01:30PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
>> I don't think those patches got memory allocation / deallocation of XDR 
>> structures right.  Not surprising really since it's totally 
>> undocumented!  In a bid to rectify this, I have documented how to do it 
>> here:
>>
>> http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/xdr_tests/
> 
> Nice. BTW on the subject of record streams - xdrrec_create - while very
> nice looking on the surface, it is utterly useless because the impl
> relies on the underlying FD / socket being in blocking mode. If you use
> non-blocking sockets marshalling/de-marshalling will fail on the first
> -EAGAIN the routines see, and they have no way to restart where they 
> left off. This is why I serialized to/from a xdrmem buffer, and then used
> my own read/write code to send to the socket where I could correctly deal
> with non-blocking mode.

Oh right - that totally passed me by.  When are you using non-blocking 
sockets?  I was under the impression they were all blocking in 
qemu_internal / libvirt_qemud.

Rich.

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