On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 1:33 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 01/17/2012 12:33 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering about a qemu-side solution where a closed qtest socket
>> means we need to shut down, but am not sure if the chardev code lets
>> us do that.  (Really we want POLLHUP but we only seem to have
>> POLLIN/POLLOUT handlers.)
>
>
> For poll, both POLLIN and POLLOUT are always reported together with POLLHUP.
>  I think the same happens with select().  If you get a zero-read in the
> qtest chardev handler you can shut down.

There is already open/closed logic in qemu-char.c that acts on
select(2) becoming readable.  However, it isn't kicking in - we're
still ending up in send_all(), which should only be called when we
thing the socket is connected.  I'll investigate some more.

Stefan

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