On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 12:26:37PM +0200, Samuel Ortiz wrote: > Hi, > > On a qemu instance started with a qmp unix socket: > > -qmp unix:/tmp/ctrl.sock,server,nowait > > I am trying to have multiple clients working on that socket but > although the qmp server seems to accept the connections, only the first > connected client gets his request processed. The next client requests > will just hang until the first one exits. > > Is that an intended behaviour ?
Yes, the character device code is designed around the idea of a single endpoint. In the case of the monitor you could work around it by adding multiple -qmp arguemnts, each with different socket. Of course you have to make sure each client doesn't trample on the other client when doing this. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|