libxl: Cope with pipes which signal POLLHUP|POLLIN on read eof
Some operating systems (including Linux and FreeBSD[1]) signal not
(only) POLLIN when a reading pipe reaches EOF, but POLLHUP (with or
without POLLIN). This is permitted[2]. The implications are that in
the general case it is not possible to determine whether POLLHUP
indicates an error or simply eof without attempting a read.
Datacopiers mishandle this, because they always treat POLLHUP
exceptionally (either reporting it via callback_pollhup, or treating
it as an error). datacopiers reading from pipes on such OSs can fail
(perhaps leaving some data unprocessed) rather than completing
successfully.
[1] http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/tech/poll.html
[2] http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/
9699919799/functions/poll.html
Distinguishing POLLHUP is needed for pty fds, but most callers in
libxl do not care about POLLHUP except as an error or eof condition.
So change the datacopier semantics so that if callback_pollhup is not
specified we treat POLLHUP almost like POLLIN. The difference is that
if we get HUP from poll, but EWOULDBLOCK from read, we must signal an
error rather than attempting the read again.
This fixes the problem which
7e9ec50b0535 was aimed at.
Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
CC: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
CC: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
CC: Roger Pau Monné <roger.pau@citrix.com>
CC: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
CC: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>