Re: [RFA] Resubmit process record and replay, 4/10

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>]

Pedro Alves wrote:
> A Thursday 20 November 2008 01:46:05, Michael Snyder escreveu:
>> Seems like a couple of people had some doubts about this
>> particular part of the implementation.
>>
>> Does anyone have any alternative suggestions?
>>
> 
> Sounds like a deficiency of the target interface, as most target_ops
> functions don't take a "this" pointer and do the "beneath"
> lookup themselves.
> 
> Would doing something like this work here? :
> 
>   for (t = current_target.beneath; t != NULL; t = t->beneath)
>     if (t->to_xfer_partial != NULL)
> 	{
> 	  t->to_xfer_partial (...);
> 	  return;
> 	}
> 
>   etc., that is don't stop looking at the immediate
>   target beneath, but look until you find one that suits instead.
> 
> I'd prefer that the core side isn't special cased for
> the record target.  If need be, we can add, change or adapt
> the target interfaces.
> 

I think that you're right that the "target beneath" functionality
is incomplete as it is.