Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qmp: dump-guest-memory: don't spin if non-blocking fd would block

[Eric Blake]

On 09/21/2012 11:07 AM, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> fd_write_vmcore() will indefinitely spin for a non-blocking
> file-descriptor that would block. However, if the fd is non-blocking,
> how does it make sense to spin?
> 
> Change this behavior to return an error instead.
> 
> Note that this can only happen with an fd provided by a management
> application. The fd opened internally by dump-guest-memory is blocking.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <address@hidden>
> ---
>  dump.c | 13 +++----------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/dump.c b/dump.c
> index 2bf8d8d..5eea015 100644
> --- a/dump.c
> +++ b/dump.c
> @@ -100,18 +100,11 @@ static void dump_error(DumpState *s, const char *reason)
>  static int fd_write_vmcore(void *buf, size_t size, void *opaque)
>  {
>      DumpState *s = opaque;
> -    int fd = s->fd;
>      size_t writen_size;

While you are here, s/writen/written/ in the local variable.

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Eric Blake   address@hidden    +1-919-301-3266
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