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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/11] libxl: Provide libxl_domain_rename
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 10:34:43 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BAC8DC3.10309@eu.citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19372.35641.851620.698017@mariner.uk.xensource.com>

On 26/03/10 10:23, Ian Jackson wrote:
> You are confused.  The purpose of this check is to check that the
> existing name is as expected, not that the name is not unique
> (although the lack of checking that the name is unique is also a bug).

I'm not confused, there's no need to check anything, libxl is here to 
plumb whatever name the user of the library has chosen for its domain 
into a xenstore entry: the name is opaque to libxl, and should remains 
as such.

if you want some kind of migration lock, put in xl where you define the 
policy.

> 0 is a perfectly acceptable null pointer constant.

working != acceptable.

-- 
Vincent

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-26 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-25 19:04 [PATCH 00/11] Migration support for "xl" Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 01/11] libxl: Make logging functions preserve errno Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 02/11] libxl: Report error if logfile rotation fails Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 03/11] libxl: New utility functions in for reading and writing files Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 04/11] libxl: libxl_domain_restore: Put fd back to blocking mode Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 05/11] libxl: Provide libxl_domain_rename Ian Jackson
2010-03-26 10:01   ` Vincent Hanquez
2010-03-26 10:23     ` Ian Jackson
2010-03-26 10:34       ` Vincent Hanquez [this message]
2010-03-26 10:40         ` Ian Jackson
2010-04-01 11:00         ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 06/11] libxl: Expose functions for helping with subprocesses Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 07/11] libxl: Expose libxl_report_exitstatus Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 08/11] libxl: Per-domain data storage for the convenience of the library user Ian Jackson
2010-03-26 10:06   ` Vincent Hanquez
2010-03-26 10:20     ` Ian Jackson
2010-03-26 10:29       ` Vincent Hanquez
2010-03-26 10:34         ` Ian Jackson
2010-03-26 10:41           ` Vincent Hanquez
2010-03-26 10:45             ` Ian Jackson
2010-03-26 11:27               ` Vincent Hanquez
2010-03-26 11:56                 ` Ian Jackson
2010-04-01 11:04       ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 09/11] xl: New savefile format. Save domain config when saving a domain Ian Jackson
2010-04-01 11:08   ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 10/11] xl: Domain creation logging fixes Ian Jackson
2010-03-25 19:04 ` [PATCH 11/11] xl: Migration support Ian Jackson
2010-04-01 11:10   ` Stefano Stabellini
2010-04-01 11:10 ` [PATCH 00/11] Migration support for "xl" Stefano Stabellini

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