On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 08:51:57PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 12:23:31PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote: > > Unfortunately, I chose the design of 0 or more structured replies > > followed by a normal reply, so that the normal reply is a reliable > > indicator that the read is complete (whether successful or not); and the > > whole goal of the extension is to avoid sending any data payload on a > > normal reply. I'm not sure how to send the offset in the normal reply > > without violating the premise that a normal reply has no payload. > > Oh. I thought you meant for the concluding message to also be a > structured reply with the length field be zero, but you mean for it to > be a non-structured reply message? If so, you should clarify that a bit > more (this wasn't clear to me)...
Also, I'm not convinced that's a very good approach, since it also requires analyzers to have more context than just requiring a single final "empty" structured reply message. -- < ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules, and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too. -- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Transform Data into Opportunity. Accelerate data analysis in your applications with Intel Data Analytics Acceleration Library. Click to learn more. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=278785471&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Nbd-general mailing list Nbd-general@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nbd-general