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From: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Solaris dom0 (was "Makefile reworking")
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 12:44:27 -0600
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On Monday 07 November 2005 09:18, John Levon wrote:
> This is initial work towards a Solaris Domain 0. For that we most
> definitely want the tools and Xen itself compiling (and eventually,
> working) on Solaris. We could maintain this as a permanent fork, but
> that has all the disadvantages a fork usually does.

In that case, the mingling of threads and signals in xenstored (see "Make 
xenstored reopen its trace file on SIGHUP") may not be a good idea. I think 
that behavior varies across operating systems...

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Hollis Blanchard
IBM Linux Technology Center