The 'reconnect' option is used to give the sleep time, in seconds,
before a client socket attempts to re-establish a connection to the
server. It does not make sense to set this for server sockets, as they
will always accept a new client connection immediately after the
previous one went away.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
---
chardev/char-socket.c | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/chardev/char-socket.c b/chardev/char-socket.c
index 6669acb35f..4570755adf 100644
--- a/chardev/char-socket.c
+++ b/chardev/char-socket.c
@@ -1035,7 +1035,14 @@ static bool qmp_chardev_validate_socket(ChardevSocket
*sock,
}
/* Validate any options which have a dependancy on client vs server */
- if (!(sock->has_server && sock->server)) {
+ if (!sock->has_server || sock->server) {
+ if (sock->has_reconnect) {
+ error_setg(errp,
+ "'reconnect' option is incompatible with "
+ "socket in server listen mode");
+ return false;
+ }
+ } else {
if (sock->has_websocket && sock->websocket) {
error_setg(errp, "%s", "Websocket client is not implemented");
return false;
--
2.20.1
