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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: xenstore reboot/crash watch
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:12:55 +0000
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Ashwin Pankaj wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I tried googling this one - but documentation on @releaseDomain key in 
> xenstore seems scanty.
>
>    1. If a client registers a watch for this key - does it get called
>       every time a domain restarts / crashes ?
>   
yes
>    2. Why can't xenstore-ls, xenstore-read et al "see" this key ?
>   
this is not a database key. this is just a special event.
>         So would the following python code register watch for  restart
>       events of ANY domain - 'watch = xswatch("@releaseDomain",
>       watch_func, xshandle())' ?
>   
yes it seems right.
but it's not a restart event, the event is there to notify that one or 
multiple domain(s) are dead.

-- 
Vincent