Re: [Qemu-devel] RFC: running the user interface in a thread ...

[Eric Blake]

On 01/18/2016 02:54 AM, Gerd Hoffmann wrote:
>   Hi folks,
> 
> I'm starting to investigate if and how we can move the user interface
> code into its own thread instead of running it in the iothread and
> therefore avoid blocking the guest in case some UI actions take a little
> longer.

That, and so the UI can use localization without corrupting other
threads that MUST use the C locale (QMP parsing/output of floating point
is particularly important to get right with '.' instead of ',' for a
decimal separator).

> 
> Suggestions how to tackle that?

Sadly, I don't have good suggestions here, as I've never done much in
the way of UI coding.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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