> On 15 Jun 2016, at 09:03, Wouter Verhelst <w...@uter.be> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 15, 2016 at 09:05:22AM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: >> There are more clients than the Linux and qemu ones, but I think it's >> fair to say that those two are the most important ones. If they agree >> that a read reply which errors should come without payload, then I think >> we should update the standard to say that, too. > > I've just pushed a commit that changes the spec (and the implementation) > so that if a server encounters a read error, it does not send a payload. > > In other words, the current behaviour of qemu is correct, is now > documented to be correct, and should not be changed.
So what should those servers do (like 2 of mine) which don't buffer the entire read, if they get an error having already sent some data? -- Alex Bligh
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