Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Provide support for the software TPM emulator

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Patrick Ohly (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-04-03 at 18:38 +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> > Or you could just remove the spawning code and use existing sockets; less 
> > code!
> 
> That would be harder to use reliably in the automated testing that this
> feature is targeting.
> 
> With this mechanism, it is guaranteed that both processes notice when
> the other dies because the connection gets disconnected. There's never a
> time period where one process listens for a connection from a process
> that might have died already, or never got started.
> 
> It's also easier that the scripts calling qemu only need to deal with
> one process, as before, and just need to pass some additional
> parameters.
> 
> Can we agree that both usage models are valid and thus support both?

Yep, that's fine.

Dave

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> Best Regards, Patrick Ohly
> 
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> represent Intel's position on the issue, nor am I authorized to speak
> on behalf of Intel on this matter.
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