Re: [PATCH v3 01/15] python: qemu: add timer parameter for qmp.accept socket

[John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>]

On 4/14/21 1:03 PM, Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito wrote:
> Add a new _qmp_timer field to the QEMUMachine class.
> The default timer is 15 sec, as per the default in the
> qmp accept() function.

Fine enough for now.

What's the exact need for this change, exactly? Is it just to prevent 
any unbounded blocking waits? I assume this came up in development or 
you'd not have added it.

Reviewed-by: John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Emanuele Giuseppe Esposito <eesposit@redhat.com>
> ---
>   python/qemu/machine.py | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/python/qemu/machine.py b/python/qemu/machine.py
> index 6e44bda337..12752142c9 100644
> --- a/python/qemu/machine.py
> +++ b/python/qemu/machine.py
> @@ -110,6 +110,7 @@ def __init__(self,
>           self._binary = binary
>           self._args = list(args)
>           self._wrapper = wrapper
> +        self._qmp_timer = 15.0
>   
>           self._name = name or "qemu-%d" % os.getpid()
>           self._test_dir = test_dir
> @@ -323,7 +324,7 @@ def _pre_launch(self) -> None:
>   
>       def _post_launch(self) -> None:
>           if self._qmp_connection:
> -            self._qmp.accept()
> +            self._qmp.accept(self._qmp_timer)
>   
>       def _post_shutdown(self) -> None:
>           """
>