On 04/27/11 17:05, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 16:27:01 +0200
> jes.soren...@redhat.com wrote:
> 
>> From: Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com>
>>
>> This is quivalent to snapshot_blkdev in the human monitor, with _sync
>> added to the command name to make it explicit that the command is
>> synchronous and leave space for a future async version.
> 
> I'm not sure appending "_sync" is such a good convention, most commands
> are sync today and they don't have it. I'd prefer to call it snapshot_blkdev
> and note in the documentation how it works.
> 
> On the other hand, I'm not sure how Anthony is going to model async
> commands, so maybe he has a better suggestion.

The _sync prefix is on purpose to leave space for a possible async
implementation of the snapshot command in the future. This isn't related
to it being a sync vs async qmp command though.

Jes

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