[Bug 1381846] Re: Data sent to parallel port in guest is lost if host buffer fills up

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[Expired for QEMU because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

** Changed in: qemu
       Status: Incomplete => Expired

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Title:
  Data sent to parallel port in guest is lost if host buffer fills up

Status in QEMU:
  Expired

Bug description:
  It appears that qemu will blindly write characters out to the chardev
  and drop them on the floor if a write fails with EAGAIN, without
  initiating flow control (via BUSY and ACK) back to the guest. If the
  host buffer is too small, or is talking to a hardware device that is
  too slow, data will be lost.

  I notice this problem when I run a DOS program with this on the qemu command 
line:
  -parallel /dev/usb/lp0

  I can work around this problem by buffering via a pipe, but this looks
  like a general problem. Is there a way to wire up the readiness of the
  output chardev to the parallel port ACK and BUSY lines, and signal an
  ISA interrupt? I don't know the code well enough to tell.

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