Re: [Libvir] Re: Asynchronous notifications of domain start/stop

Daniel P. Berrange wrote: >The daemon has a buffer of outgoing data - and it appends to this buffer >discrete 'XDR' messages. So we should be able to simply append another >XDR message per notification & not have to overly worry about things >being mixed up in the stream. When the client is deserializing replies >during normal calls it'll have to keep an eye out for messages which are >in fact notifications, rather than its expected reply, but again that >should not be too hard since we're dealing with discrete XDR encoded >messages. So AFAICT we don't need any OOB or piggybacking stuff - just >queue up the data to send as normal. Obviously at the moment, remote calls are completely synchronous on the client side. remote_internal.c:call() is a function which serialises the args, writes them to the socket, then sits there waiting for a reply. I guess we're not planning to make this asynchronous? (Or are we??)