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authorPeter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>2018-06-20 15:32:17 +0800
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2018-06-30 17:50:48 +0200
commitd88610111b40bca19925ece0fa81710d425725a8 (patch)
treef61862148cee1c48416d2784436d7c0ccca6780b
parent6f4fa0998fd13bd8a533f38ee69774ecad6911b6 (diff)
chardev: comment details for CLOSED event
It was unclear before on what does the CLOSED event mean. Meanwhile we add a TODO to fix up the CLOSED event in the future when the in/out ports are different for a chardev. CC: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> CC: "Marc-André Lureau" <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> CC: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> CC: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180620073223.31964-2-peterx@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--include/chardev/char.h11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/chardev/char.h b/include/chardev/char.h
index 04de45795e..6f0576e214 100644
--- a/include/chardev/char.h
+++ b/include/chardev/char.h
@@ -22,7 +22,16 @@ typedef enum {
CHR_EVENT_OPENED, /* new connection established */
CHR_EVENT_MUX_IN, /* mux-focus was set to this terminal */
CHR_EVENT_MUX_OUT, /* mux-focus will move on */
- CHR_EVENT_CLOSED /* connection closed */
+ CHR_EVENT_CLOSED /* connection closed. NOTE: currently this event
+ * is only bound to the read port of the chardev.
+ * Normally the read port and write port of a
+ * chardev should be the same, but it can be
+ * different, e.g., for fd chardevs, when the two
+ * fds are different. So when we received the
+ * CLOSED event it's still possible that the out
+ * port is still open. TODO: we should only send
+ * the CLOSED event when both ports are closed.
+ */
} QEMUChrEvent;
#define CHR_READ_BUF_LEN 4096