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From: Vincent Hanquez <vincent.hanquez@eu.citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libxl: Use xenbus to communicate with xenstore
	if the socket fails
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 2010 10:53:51 +0000
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On 09/12/10 10:21, Ian Campbell wrote:
>>   I think there was at least 1 other practical differences, but it
>> seems to have eluded me.

Thinking more about it, it might be related to timeout, and/or it might 
be: If xenstored has decided to not answer you, your thread is dead in 
the water, because you end up stuck in kernel land forever (wait not 
interruptible aka D).

(It might have been related to historical reasons, however it could 
still be happening in the unlikely event of xenstored dying)

-- 
Vincent