On Tue, 15 Apr 2025 at 16:33, Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Because that's what the QEMU API specification declares
> * Not all implementations will support this facility, so may report
> * an error. To avoid errors, the caller may check for the feature
> * flag QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_SEEKABLE prior to calling this method.
>
> and what the QEMU API impl defines
>
> if (!qio_channel_has_feature(ioc, QIO_CHANNEL_FEATURE_SEEKABLE)) {
> error_setg_errno(errp, EINVAL, "Requested channel is not seekable");
> return -1;
> }
* ie. _FEATURE_SEEKABLE should be set iff the underlying
channel/stream supports seek (random access) functionality, right?
That is quite connected with the lseek(2) OR ->io_seek() and such
support, no?
Thank you.
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- Prasad
