On (Tue) Apr 06 2010 [09:40:55], Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > >> Make 'len' a pointer instead, and indicate how much of the string was >> written. The return value will either be the same as 'len' or a negative >> number indicating an error condition. > > I would follow the unix write syscall semantic here and report the > number of written bytes using the return value. Matter of taste though.
Yeah; some re-org in the write() calls in qemu-char would be needed to do that, but yes, that can be done too. Amit