Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v7 00/13] curl: fix curl read

[Fam Zheng]

On Fri, 06/07 08:27, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 07, 2013 at 09:54:42AM +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > The weird thing is it doesn't work for me, I'm sure something is wrong
> > with current upstream, although not totally broken.
> > 
> >   $./qemu-io http://localhost/vm/arch.raw -c 'read -v 0 512'
> >   (stuck here forever, no output)
> 
> This doesn't work for me either.
> 
> *However* it only doesn't work if I use the Fedora version of curl,
> which I'm convinced is broken.

I see, it turns out upstream curl works in my case too, thanks.

So it's more of curl broken rather than qemu driver. For the timeout
issue introduced here, I think it's the effect of implementing timer in
the driver, I can't think of a good way to workaround. However the
master code not using timer at all is an undocumented usage of libcurl.

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Fam