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From: David Vrabel <dvrabel@cantab.net>
To: "Roger Pau Monné" <roger.pau@entel.upc.edu>
Cc: "xen-devel@lists.xensource.com" <xen-devel@lists.xensource.com>,
	Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@eu.citrix.com>,
	Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>,
	Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: xl create PV guest with qcow/qcow2 disk images fail
Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2011 11:45:31 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EB3D05B.3090503@cantab.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPLaKK7Eh3_DzLTVmnk6f6Cw7bDVBxkm7_-=cFaxFVfKKcHuFQ@mail.gmail.com>

On 04/11/11 09:14, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> 2011/11/4 Chunyan Liu <cyliu@suse.com>:
>>> This needs to be libxl_fork, I think. Perhaps even this whole thing
>>> should be libxl__spawn_spawn (not sure about that)?
>>
>> I noticed that in libxl, some places use fork() and other places use
>> libxl_fork(), device-model uses libxl__spawn_spwan. As for this place, I am
>> not clear if fork() + execvp() might cause some problem? Or it is just
>> considered better to use libxl_fork or libxl__spawn_spwan?

vfork() no longer exists in the POSIX.1-2008 standard so you probably
should not use it.

David

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-04 11:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-28 13:27 xl create PV guest with qcow/qcow2 disk images fail Chunyan Liu
2011-11-02  6:58 ` Chun Yan Liu
2011-11-02 12:59   ` Ian Campbell
2011-11-02 16:45     ` Ian Jackson
2011-11-04  6:40     ` Chunyan Liu
2011-11-04  9:14       ` Roger Pau Monné
2011-11-04 11:45         ` David Vrabel [this message]
2011-11-07 14:16   ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-07 14:53     ` Roger Pau Monné
2011-11-09  8:54     ` Chunyan Liu
2011-11-09  9:27       ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-11-09  9:36         ` Ian Campbell
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-10-14  8:25 Chun Yan Liu
2011-10-17 10:54 ` Dario Faggioli
2011-10-17 10:59 ` Ian Campbell
2011-10-19 10:52 ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-10-19 10:55   ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-10-19 13:34     ` Fajar A. Nugraha
2011-10-19 13:40       ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-10-27  3:08         ` Chun Yan Liu
2011-10-27  3:08         ` Chun Yan Liu
2011-10-27  9:58           ` Stefano Stabellini
2011-10-27 13:11           ` Ian Campbell

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