[libvirt] [PATCH v4 16/23] utils: Mark inpipe as non-blocking

[Stefan Berger]

On 7/12/19 4:24 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2019 at 03:41:44PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
>> Mark a virCommand's inpipe (write-end of pipe) as non-blocking so that it
>> will never block when we were to try to write too many bytes to it while
>> it doesn't have the capacity to hold them.
> So this is the right way todo it.  Why did you have the previous patch 15
> at all given you've used O_NONBLOCK here ?


I thought that with a buffer bigger than the capacity of a pipe we 
wouldn't be able to make write progress but that's not the case but it 
fills up the pipe with whatever fits. I'll drop the MIN() stuff.