Re: [PATCH 1/2] 9pnet: allow making incomplete read requests

[Dominique Martinet]

l29ah@xxxxxxx wrote on Wed, Feb 05, 2020:
> On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:35:04AM +0100, Dominique Martinet wrote:
> > I'm not sure I agree on the argument there: the waiting time is
> > unbounded for a single request as well. What's your use case?
> 
> I want to interface with synthetic file systems that represent
> arbitrary data streams.
> The one where i've hit the problem is reading the log of a XMPP chat
> client that blocks if there's no new data available.

Definitely a valid use case for 9p, please rephrase your commit message
to describe the problem a bit better.

I'll wait for a v2 removing the 'total' variable from
p9_client_read_once anyway, unless you disagree.


Thanks,
-- 
Dominique