On 01/03/2018 16:46, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 04:44:31PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote:
>> It was originally created by qio_channel_add_watch() so it's always
>> assigning the task to main context.  Now we use the new API called
>> qio_channel_add_watch_source() so that we get the GSource handle rather
>> than the tag ID.
>>
>> Meanwhile, caching the gsource in SocketChardev.telnet_source so that we
>> can also do dynamic context switch when update read handlers.
> I don't see why we would ever want to dynamically switch the
> GMainContext in use while in middle of reading the telnet greeting.

Maybe because the remote client hangs in the middle of the telnet
greeting?  The user of the Chardev can't know that the initial handshake
hasn't been done yet.

Paolo

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