Re: [Qemu-devel] chardev's and fd's in monitors

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2016 at 08:15:02PM +0100, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> Hi,
>   I had a look at a couple of readline like libraries;
> editline and linenoise.  A difficulty with using them is that
> they both want fd's or FILE*'s; editline takes either but
> from a brief look I think it's expecting to extract the fd.
> That makes them tricky to integrate into qemu, where
> the chardev's hide a whole bunch of non-fd things; in particular
> tls, mux, ringbuffers etc.
> 
> If we could get away with just a FILE* then we could use fopencookie,
> but that's GNU only.
> 
> Is there any sane way of shepherding all chardev's into having an
> fd?
> 
> Once you had those then you could also use them in a separate thread.

BTW, what is the actual thread issue you are facing ? Chardevs at least
ought to be usable from a separate thread, as long as each distinct
chardev object instance was only used from one thread at a time ?

Regards,
Daniel
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