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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies exten
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Wouter Verhelst |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension |
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Tue, 29 Mar 2016 21:06:52 +0200 |
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On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:51:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:23:31PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > Unfortunately, I chose the design of 0 or more structured replies
> > followed by a normal reply, so that the normal reply is a reliable
> > indicator that the read is complete (whether successful or not); and the
> > whole goal of the extension is to avoid sending any data payload on a
> > normal reply. I'm not sure how to send the offset in the normal reply
> > without violating the premise that a normal reply has no payload.
>
> Oh. I thought you meant for the concluding message to also be a
> structured reply with the length field be zero, but you mean for it to
> be a non-structured reply message? If so, you should clarify that a bit
> more (this wasn't clear to me)...
Also, I'm not convinced that's a very good approach, since it also
requires analyzers to have more context than just requiring a single
final "empty" structured reply message.
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, (continued)
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Eric Blake, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Eric Blake, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Eric Blake, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/03/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Eric Blake, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension,
Wouter Verhelst <=
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Eric Blake, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/03/29
- Re: [Qemu-devel] [Nbd] [PATCH 3/1] doc: Propose Structured Replies extension, Alex Bligh, 2016/03/29
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] doc: Mention proper use of handle, Wouter Verhelst, 2016/03/29