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

On Wed, Feb 05, 2020 at 08:35:04AM +0100, Dominique Martinet wrote:

Sergey Alirzaev wrote on Wed, Feb 05, 2020:

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A user doesn't necessarily want to wait for all the requested data to
be available, since the waiting time is unbounded.

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.

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