From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 66845 invoked by alias); 27 May 2016 16:52:25 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 66834 invoked by uid 89); 27 May 2016 16:52:25 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-3.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=Hx-languages-length:1556, pay, H*UA:1.5, responses X-HELO: mailuogwhop.emc.com Received: from mailuogwhop.emc.com (HELO mailuogwhop.emc.com) (168.159.213.141) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Fri, 27 May 2016 16:52:15 +0000 Received: from maildlpprd05.lss.emc.com (maildlpprd05.lss.emc.com [10.253.24.37]) by mailuogwprd02.lss.emc.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.0) with ESMTP id u4RGq8qU023264 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO); Fri, 27 May 2016 12:52:09 -0400 X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.3 mailuogwprd02.lss.emc.com u4RGq8qU023264 X-DKIM: OpenDKIM Filter v2.4.3 mailuogwprd02.lss.emc.com u4RGq8qU023264 Received: from mailsyshubprd03.lss.emc.com (mailsyshubprd03.lss.emc.com [10.253.24.25]) by maildlpprd05.lss.emc.com (RSA Interceptor); Fri, 27 May 2016 12:51:55 -0400 Received: from usendtaylorx2l (d5170089.lss.emc.com [10.243.146.89]) by mailsyshubprd03.lss.emc.com (Sentrion-MTA-4.3.1/Sentrion-MTA-4.3.0) with ESMTP id u4RGq0US013018; Fri, 27 May 2016 12:52:00 -0400 Received: by usendtaylorx2l (Postfix, from userid 26043) id D83CD2617C8; Fri, 27 May 2016 12:51:59 -0400 (EDT) Received: from usendtaylorx2l (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by usendtaylorx2l (Postfix) with ESMTP id B16ED260029; Fri, 27 May 2016 12:51:59 -0400 (EDT) From: David Taylor To: Eli Zaretskii cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Document short responses to qXfer:object:read. Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 16:52:00 -0000 Message-ID: <14203.1464367919@usendtaylorx2l> X-RSA-Classifications: public X-Sentrion-Hostname: mailuogwprd02.lss.emc.com X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-05/txt/msg00504.txt.bz2 > From: Eli Zaretskii > Date: Fri, 27 May 2016 11:35:27 +0300 > It very much does, thanks. I have 3 follow-up questions: > > . It's not clear to me what is the "returned amount" here, as the > listed responses for this packet don't seem to provide the amount > of data in the response. Do you mean the length of the data in the > "m DATA" or "l DATA" responses, counted in bytes? > > . What is a zero-length response? Is that "l" without data? > > . If my interpretation of the above 2 issues is correct, then why do we > need this new text you suggest? The 'm' and 'l' responses already > say that the data can be shorter than the request, which seems to > be what the new text says. > > Finally, it looks to me that we should move the description of the > responses to precede the details of the 'read' requests, since the > list of those requests is very long, and thus the promised description > of the responses "below" is very far away, which IMO gets in the way > of reading and comprehending the issue. > > > Now, can we come up with better wording? > > After we've figured out the above left-overs, sure. > > Thanks. I didn't pay attention to that as it was far enough after the text in question and looked -- at quick glance -- like it was part of the osdata description and therefore not relevant to threads. Taking a longer look, it clearly is relevant. It addresses most of my concerns and moving it, as you suggested, would definitely, IMO, help. Thanks.