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Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to a
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Luiz Capitulino |
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Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart |
Date: |
Thu, 21 Mar 2013 14:24:56 -0400 |
On Thu, 21 Mar 2013 11:13:13 -0500
mdroth <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Looks like you guys have no *practical* problems to solve. Congrats!
> > Take a vacation! Please report back no later than 275 years from now,
> > to make sure this 64 bit fd counter overflow problem gets taken care of
> > in time. ;-P
> >
>
> Haha, well, I didn't want to be that one lazy developer who brings about
> the downfall of future human civilization... but if it's a really big
> deal they'll probably send someone back from the future to let me know,
> so maybe I'm jumping the gun a bit :)
I *am* that guy, but I was afraid to tell :)
> I just didn't want to introduce a new interface that relied on
> interfaces that were planned for deprecation in the *long*-term, but i
> think you're right, it's too much hassle for current users for too
> little gain, and there's plenty of time to do it in the future so I'll
> hold off on it for now.
Let me clarify it: when I read the code I didn't realize fd_counter
would never wrap. I think this discussion is settled now. However, I
still think that having an assert there is good practice.
I can post a patch myself.
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, Luiz Capitulino, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, mdroth, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, Luiz Capitulino, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, mdroth, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, Luiz Capitulino, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, mdroth, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, Luiz Capitulino, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, mdroth, 2013/03/20
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, Markus Armbruster, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, mdroth, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart,
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- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, mdroth, 2013/03/21
- Re: [Qemu-stable] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-ga: use key-value store to avoid recycling fd handles after restart, Markus Armbruster, 2013/03/21