On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:48:02AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 09:42:19AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Now runs a complete set of tests, notably including the AIO test.
> > 
> > File descriptors are passed in and out as plain ints (instead of
> > *os.File) for a couple of reasons: (1) We have to pass the plain int
> > to syscall.Select.  (2) Turning an fd into an os.File causes golang to
> > set the blocking flag which is deeply unhelpful.
> 
> FWIW, using non-blocking FDs and syscall.Select is not normal best
> practice for Go, where the expected model would be to use goroutines
> with the file in blocking mode.

Right, however I couldn't find any documentation about how to
integrate a C library with that mechanism.  Does libvirt-go do
anything like this?

Rich.

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